Weller, Chapter 3
Linguistically, it's interesting that ziran is "nature", considering that there are so many other words (as we discovered in Chapter 2) that can represent nature. Of course, I had no idea who on earth the Jesuits were (besides being a Christian group), so I had to look them up.
On p.46, the excerpt from White's opinion that the environment was merely there for human exploitation is crazy. Within the Bible (something all Christians should be working from) God tells Adam that he is to care for God's other creations (animals, plants, etc.). Considering it to be something that is to be exploited is actually really strange.
The Great Leap Forward seems to mark the point where China began disregarding nature/the environment in favor of human superiority. Even with the more advanced technologies, they lacked the philosophical environmentalism that shows up from time to time in Western culture.
Obviously nobody can agree either on man's relation to nature, or which word (tian & ziran seem to be in the lead) is best.
Linguistically, it's interesting that ziran is "nature", considering that there are so many other words (as we discovered in Chapter 2) that can represent nature. Of course, I had no idea who on earth the Jesuits were (besides being a Christian group), so I had to look them up.
On p.46, the excerpt from White's opinion that the environment was merely there for human exploitation is crazy. Within the Bible (something all Christians should be working from) God tells Adam that he is to care for God's other creations (animals, plants, etc.). Considering it to be something that is to be exploited is actually really strange.
The Great Leap Forward seems to mark the point where China began disregarding nature/the environment in favor of human superiority. Even with the more advanced technologies, they lacked the philosophical environmentalism that shows up from time to time in Western culture.
Obviously nobody can agree either on man's relation to nature, or which word (tian & ziran seem to be in the lead) is best.
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