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The discourse on climate change and other global emergencies can involve many different considerations: Economic factors, political, etc. These all have their relevance but as is often said "there will be no economy on a dead planet." This slogan is not necessarily saying that everything besides stopping climate change is irrelevant but is rather meant to point out that these other factors are only relevant in so far as we have secured the foundation for all of them: a planet that sustains live as we know it. This is reminiscent of the message the Icelandic philosopher Páll Skúlason was trying to convey: that Earth is the foundation for our daily lives, our arguments and our concerns. We generally don't think about it and as such it is outside our social affairs. But our social affairs depend upon it being there. The Earth is also at the same time outside and the foundation of most moral philosophy. Philosophical arguments tend to be about the social affairs that take place "on" the Earth, but are not about the Earth. As such, the foundation of ethics is beyond the limits of most ethical and philosophical discourse. Páll was aware of this, as he considered his understanding of the Earth a "spiritual understanding" - philosophy can help us articulate and evaluate our values, but ultimately the values themselves come from a place that has more to do with religion than with science and philosophy. This is a sentiment he shared with other great philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein who felt that in articulating the absolute values in ethics we "run against the boundaries of language".| Tímabil | 24 okt. 2025 |
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| Viðburðartitill | Befriending Creation In Times of Climate Crisis: Conference in honor of prof. em. Sólveig Anna Bóasdóttir |
| Tegund atburðar | Málstofa |
| Staðsetning | Reykjavik, ÍslandSýna á korti |
| Viðurkenning | Alþjóðlegt |