The way : an ecological world-view /

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Author / Creator:Goldsmith, Edward, 1928-2009
Edition:Rev. and enl. ed.
Imprint:Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c1998.
Description:xviii, 541 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2994984
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ISBN:0820319767 (alk. paper)
0820320307 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-500) and indexes.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Ecology is a unified organization of knowledge --  |g 2.  |t Ecology seeks to establish the laws of nature --  |g 3.  |t Ecology studies natural systems in their Gaian context --  |g 4.  |t Ecology is holistic --  |g 5.  |t Ecology is teleological --  |g 6.  |t Ecology explains events in terms of their role within the spatio-temporal Gaian hierarchy --  |g 7.  |t Fundamental knowledge is inherited --  |g 8.  |t Fundamental knowledge is ineffable and we mainly have access to it by intuition and via our sense of aesthetics --  |g 9.  |t Ecological knowledge is built up by organizing knowledge in the mind --  |g 10.  |t The mind contains a hierarchical organization of instructions and an associated model or dynamic map --  |g 11.  |t Ecology is qualitative --  |g 12.  |t Only qualitative vernacular models can provide the informational basis for adaptive behavior --  |g 13.  |t Ecology is subjective --  |g 14.  |t Man is cognitively adjusted to the environment in which he is evolved --  |g 15.  |t Ecology is emotional --  |g 16.  |t Ecology is a faith --  |g 17.  |t Ecology reflects the values of the biosphere --  |g 18.  |t A proposition can only be verified in terms of the paradigm or model of which it is part --  |g 19.  |t The ecosphere is one --  |g 20.  |t Gaia is a spatio-temporal entity --  |g 21.  |t Gaia, seen as a total spatio-temporal process, is the unit of evolution --  |g 22.  |t Stability rather than change is the basic feature of the living world --  |g 23.  |t Gaia is alive --  |g 24.  |t Natural systems are homeostatic --  |g 25.  |t Natural systems are homeorhetic --  |g 26.  |t The Gaian process is not random --  |g 27.  |t Gaian life processes are purposive --  |g 28.  |t Life processes are dynamic --  |g 29.  |t Life processes are creative --  |g 30.  |t Life processes are anticipatory --  |g 31.  |t Living things seek to understand their relationship with their environment --  |g 32.  |t Living systems are intelligent --  |g 33.  |t Consciousness is not a prerogative of man --  |g 34.  |t Gaia is the source of all benefits --  |g 35.  |t The ecosphere displays spatio-temporal order --  |g 36.  |t Gaian order is critical --  |g 37.  |t There is no fundamental barrier separating man from other living things --  |g 38.  |t The ecosphere is a hierarchical organization of natural systems --  |g 39.  |t Co-operation is the primary Gaian interrelationship --  |g 40.  |t Competition is a secondary Gaian interrelationship --  |g 41.  |t Natural systems are homeotelic to Gaia --  |g 42.  |t When Gaian control breaks down behavior becomes heterotelic --  |g 43.  |t Natural systems can only behave homeotelically within their tolerance range --  |g 44.  |t The tolerance range of living things is their field or ordered environment --  |g 45.  |t The behavior of a natural system is controlled homearchically by the hierarchy of larger systems of which it is part --  |g 46.  |t As the environment diverges from the optimum, biological maladjustment increases --  |g 47.  |t As the environment diverges from the optimum, social maladjustment increases --  |g 48.  |t As the environment diverges from the optimum, cognitive maladjustment increases --  |g 49.  |t Man is psychically maladjusted to the world as depicted by the paradigm of science --  |g 50.  |t The internalization of control increases stability --  |g 51.  |t Life processes are sequential and tend towards the most stable state --  |g 52.  |t Increased complexity leads to greater stability --  |g 53.  |t By increasing its diversity a system increases the range of environmental challenges with which it is capable of dealing --  |g 54.  |t In a vernacular society education is homeotelic to Gaia --  |g 55.  |t In a vernacular society settlements are homeotelic to Gaia --  |g 56.  |t In a vernacular society economic activity is homeotelic to Gaia --  |g 57.  |t In a vernacular society technology is homeotelic to Gaia --  |g 58.  |t In an ecological economy, money is homeotelic to Gaia --  |g 59.  |t The vernacular economy is localized and hence largely self-sufficient --  |g 60.  |t The vernacular community is the unit of homeotelic behavior --  |g 61.  |t Vernacular man follows the Way --  |g 62.  |t For vernacular man, to increase his stock of "vital force" is to follow the Way --  |g 63.  |t For vernacular man, to serve his gods is to follow the Way --  |g 64.  |t Progress is anti-evolutionary and is the anti-Way --  |g 65.  |t To keep to the Way society must be able to correct any divergence from it --  |g 66.  |t The great reinterpretation requires a conversion to the world-view of ecology --  |g App. 1.  |t Does the entropy law apply to the real world? --  |g App. 2.  |t What is information? --  |g App. 3.  |t The artificialistic fallacy --  |g App. 4.  |t The need for a feedback mechanism linking behavior to evolution. 
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