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Environmental problems in the context of western culture. An outline of selected conceptions
 Vysloužilová, Klára ; Ortová, Jitka (advisor) ; Mrázová, Gabriela (referee)
The goal of the Thesis is to achieve an understanding of the global effects of the expansive character of Western culture. The project stems from an analysis of Western society as a specific sociocultural system which developed from an originally European civilization to a generally Western civilization and now aspires to be a world-wide civilization. An emphasis is placed on the fact that Western society's current behavior threatens not only its own future existence, but that of the rest of the surrounding world. This text presents an overview of the origins and changes of the Western world view and the life style associated with it, points out the motives behind them, compare them with alternative conceptions from selected non- Western cultures, and critically evaluate them, primarily in the context of the current ecological situation. The covered theories and explanatory models in the Thesis are related to three main areas. The first area includes philosophical reflections on environmental problems, especially the search for phenomena that were present during the birth of Western culture. The theories and models also shed light on the way they contributed to a "radical questioning of what was previously thought to be self-evident". The second area examines the question of the correlation between the...
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Environmental problems in the context of western culture. An outline of selected conceptions
 Vysloužilová, Klára ; Mrázová, Gabriela (referee) ; Ortová, Jitka (advisor)
The goal of the Thesis is to achieve an understanding of the global effects of the expansive character of Western culture. The project stems from an analysis of Western society as a specific sociocultural system which developed from an originally European civilization to a generally Western civilization and now aspires to be a world-wide civilization. An emphasis is placed on the fact that Western society's current behavior threatens not only its own future existence, but that of the rest of the surrounding world. This text presents an overview of the origins and changes of the Western world view and the life style associated with it, points out the motives behind them, compare them with alternative conceptions from selected non- Western cultures, and critically evaluate them, primarily in the context of the current ecological situation. The covered theories and explanatory models in the Thesis are related to three main areas. The first area includes philosophical reflections on environmental problems, especially the search for phenomena that were present during the birth of Western culture. The theories and models also shed light on the way they contributed to a "radical questioning of what was previously thought to be self-evident". The second area examines the question of the correlation between the...
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