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Rethinking Nature: A philosophy to the rewilding

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  Rethinking   Nature: A philosophy to the rewilding Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes – I mean the Universe                                                               (Galileo Galilei). In 1988, Time Magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ was not a man but or even a human but earth itself. This earth has been for millennia the taken-for-granted background for all human activities. It has served as a storehouse and refuse bin. Nature is the abode of life but it is disappearing fast. Because of the impact on the world of nature, many people call the present age “the Anthropocene” coining this term to echo geological ages such as the Eocene and the Pleistocene. What they mean is that human impacts have become predominant over the whole surface of the Earth. When the degradation of the harmony between nature and humanity emerged and the sustainability of our planet earth are questioned, many eco-philosophers came forward to reinterpret the ethics in t
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ALTRUISM: BEING SELFLESS FOR THE THE WELL-BEING OF THE OTHER

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  ALTRUISM: BEING SELFLESS FOR THE THE WELL-BEING OF THE OTHER   1.0   Introduction Thinking is always a rational progression that tries to solve the glitches of the world with renewed intelligence and comprehension. It includes a makeover not only in rationality but also in action. Altruism is one of the rational requirements of action. What is the role of the philosophy of altruism in human life? To answer this question, it is necessary first to know whether altruism a desire to benefit someone else for his or her sake rather than one’s own, even exists in humans. The reality of the philosophy of altruism has been debated, often vehemently, for centuries. The reason for the frenzied debate is that if altruism occurs, it has philosophical inferences. The certainty and existence of altruism point our energy towards the fundamental human nature; do all actions of humanity focused on benefiting ourselves? Those who carefully consider the human state often accomplish that self-inte
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