Living Earth Youth Dialogues: Ecophilosophies East and West

In this Living Earth Youth Dialogue, Jared Morningstar will explore resources and roadblocks to ecological thinking and living found within both Eastern and Western philosophical and religious systems. He will first discuss Christianity and Islam, detailing potential issues of transcendence and anthropocentrism in these traditions. He will also examine Buddhism and Taoism where one finds a less pronounced historical consciousness than the Abrahamic traditions. To conclude, he will suggest how these traditions can be brought together under a process perspective to go beyond their individual shortcomings.