Life in Process: The Lived-Body Ethics for Future

Reliģiski-Filozofiski Raksti:154-183 (2020)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The article explores the concept of ‘life’ via processual ontology, contrasting the approaches of substance and processual ontologies, and investigates the link between ontological assumptions and sociopolitical discourses, stating that the predominant substance ontologies also promote an objectifying and anthropocentric framework in sociopolitical discourses and ethical approaches. Arguing for a necessary shift in the ontological conceptualization of life to enable environmentally-minded ethics for the future, the article explores the tie between the sociopolitical discourses embedded in a worldview that is grounded in substance ontology and ethical frameworks. Whilst affirming this tie, this study also explicates the limitations and potential feasibility of a processual understanding of life, in the context of the existential disposition of the self-alienated lived-body self that is ontologically predisposed to objectification as a necessary pre-condition to human self-awareness.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

A lack of meaning?Anne Sauka - 2020 - Approaching Religion 10 (2):125 - 140.
Critical Theory and Processual Social Ontology.Emmanuel Renault - 2016 - Journal of Social Ontology 2 (1):17–32.
A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology.John A. Dupre & Daniel J. Nicholson - 2018 - In Daniel J. Nicholson & John Dupré, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
On the relationship between scientific theory and ontology in everything flows.Markus Maier - 2024 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 46 (21):1-11.

Analytics

Added to PP
2024-03-19

Downloads
149 (#156,207)

6 months
63 (#92,692)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Anne Sauka
University of Latvia

Citations of this work

Add more citations

References found in this work

A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology.John A. Dupre & Daniel J. Nicholson - 2018 - In Daniel J. Nicholson & John Dupré, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Add more references