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Buddhadasa on environmental consciousness and its relationship to environmental ethics

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dc.contributor.authorPhubes Sukjam
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-16T06:51:50Z
dc.date.available2023-12-16T06:51:50Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.date.issuedBE2563
dc.description.abstractThis research is an attempt to respond to the global problem of an environmental crisis that has threatened and affected all dimensions of living things and non-living things in the world. It mainly deals with Eastern and Western environmental worldview. In Eastern, the researcher selects Buddhadāsa as a representative of Eastern intellectual thinker who discusses the environmental issues through the lens of Dependent Origination, which is defined as interconnected no-self. In Western, there are two main forms of environmental ethics: Anthropocentrism and Non-Anthropocentrism, which is understood according to their definition. As the result of the research, research finds that an ecocentrist, Arne Naess, presents ontological environmental consciousness similar with Buddhadāsa. Naess, who has drawn his deep ecology from ecological science and ecological wisdom from Hindu religion and Spinoza’s philosophy, formulates the recognition of the ontological premises, which can move our environmental consciousness beyond constructed distinctions between science and Eastern religion. The belief in the interconnectedness of all things is central of Naess’s Deep Ecology, whereas Buddhadāsa also heightens one’s sense of interconnectedness with the natural world through his interpretation of the law of conditionality. Based on the ontological premises, both Buddhadāsa and Naess are conceptualized as radical environmental and ethical critique of anthropocentric worldview by expanding the notions of self to disrupt distinction between human and non-human world. Naess relies on Self-realization as a process to gradually reduce egoistic self and identify it to ecological Self. Whereas, Buddhadāsa relies on mindfulness as a process to gradually control and remove selfishness, which results all kinds of violence and exploitation to be removed as well. Buddhadāsa and Naess presents environmental consciousness to pave the way for the development of environmental philosophy or ethics through spiritual approach in order to advise practitioners to shift to a lifestyle of sufficiency and frugality in a way to harmonize with nature. The difference is that Buddhadāsa posits a notion of the self in terms of both dynamic and developmental, which is seen as a dynamic continuity. As the result, Buddhadāsa’s environmental consciousness stems from a transformation of selfattachment to an interconnected selfless or no-self. Whereas Naess posits a notion of the Self in terms of an essential ontological substantiality, which is seen as an underlying permanent Self. As the result, Naess’s environmental consciousness stems from selfidentification from the egoistic self to the ecological Self. Buddhadāda argues that once we realize clearly the reality of natural phenomena through the teachings of interconnected no–self, we will discover selflessness of human nature, which will eventually release humans from the ignorance and selfishness. The environmental consciousness of the interconnected non-self enables humans to stop the behavior of excessive exploitation of the natural resources, instead to develop loving kindness and compassion toward fellow humans and non-human entities. We will act whatever in the ways of interconnected selfless, which detach from egocentric actions, but not detach from the natural world. With the spirit of egocentric detachment, we will produce and consume natural resources based on ecocentric worldview like a bee consumes honey without injuring the plants.
dc.identifier.urihttps://harrt.in.th/handle/123456789/5782
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectพุทธทาสภิกขุ
dc.subjectอาร์เนอ เนสส์
dc.subjectนิเวศวิทยา
dc.subject.isced0223 ปรัชญาและจริยธรรม
dc.subject.oecd6.3 ปรัชญา จริยธรรมและศาสนา
dc.titleBuddhadasa on environmental consciousness and its relationship to environmental ethics
dc.typeวิทยานิพนธ์ระดับปริญญาเอก (Doctoral Thesis)
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harrt.researchAreaปรัชญาพุทธเถรวาท
harrt.researchGroupปรัชญา
harrt.researchTheme.1จริยศาสตร์
harrt.researchTheme.2ปรัชญาพุทธเถรวาท
mods.location.urlhttps://repository.au.edu/items/90d3d22f-6be6-4ef0-a156-cf08b2032575
thesis.degree.departmentบัณฑิตวิทยาลัย
thesis.degree.grantorมหาวิทยาลัยอัสสัมชัญ
thesis.degree.levelปริญญาเอก
thesis.degree.nameปรัชญาดุษฎีบัณฑิต
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