The ecological epoché

In Alfred Schutz’s discussion of the world of daily life, which differs from other multiple realities, though all these realities pertain to the life-world preceding the implementation of the full-blown phenomenological reduction, he emphasizes that the world of daily life is a world of working. In...

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Autor: Barber, Michael
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2017
País:Brasil
Recursos:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositório:Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/27867
Acesso em linha:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/civitas/article/view/27867
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:World of working. Epoché. Sustainability. Multiple realities. Empathy.
Mundo de trabalho. Epoché. Sustentabilidade. Realidades múltiplas. Empatia.
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Resumo:In Alfred Schutz’s discussion of the world of daily life, which differs from other multiple realities, though all these realities pertain to the life-world preceding the implementation of the full-blown phenomenological reduction, he emphasizes that the world of daily life is a world of working. In this paper I will describe what working is and its potential for impairing our relationships with animals and negatively impacting ecological sustainability. I will then suggest two resources within the phenomenological tradition for challenging the potential for such impairment: Husserl’s notion of empathy, which reaches to animals, and Schutz’s idea of multiple realities, which, I will argue, could include a distinctive ecological attitude initiated by an ecological epoché.