The Metaphysical and Cosmological Roots of the Ecological Crisis

Seyyed Hossein Nasr speaks on "The Metaphysical and Cosmological Roots of the
Ecological Crisis." Guest Lecture Series, Lindisfarne in Manhattan 1976/1977 -- Schumacher Center, a Lindisfarne talk.

[@isaiahdouglass8607]

This is essential,Nasrs intuition into the metaphysical ground of history is illuminating.

[@JeffreyPappas786]

This is a great antithesis for Jared Diamond's very influential book Guns, Germs, and Steel. His mechanistic way of tracing human development really does disregard China, which had the exact same factors in Europe (steel, germs from domesticated animals, and black powder) but they didn't embark on a worldwide killing spree. MashAllah!

[@TheSoteriologist]

Nasr is a genius.

[@sillyname6808]

A great man

[@IpsissimusPrime]

Great lecture from a brilliant mind. It would seem that humanity is on an endless loop between “Heaven and Earth” given the recent archaeological findings in Turkey of buried giant metropolises dating back ten to twelve thousand years ago. Not primitive. Just extinct. Can’t say whether they were monotheistic either. Humbling.

[@JN-xb6pq]

57:16 - great point!

[@amirsuhailwani_asw9517]

The imitable Nasr... Great lecture

[@perennis9171]

Thank you !

[@fire.smok3]

Really enjoyed this

[@Daniel-pw7md]

Gold.

[@artistwintersong7343]

very nice.

[@resitiron1804]

Ngeli in lepen nurut lakuning tirto

[@realracing7553]

How can ecological crises be the product of metaphysical processes? It is the product of physical process which are defintionally undergirded by a metaphysical order

[@samisiddiqi5411]

What makes you so certain about the latter?

[@densaakaldte1]

“The whole of nature amounts to no more than a symbol of transcended realities” - René Guénon The physical world is purely reflective and reactive and you will look in vain for any true causes in it.

[@gpietra]

And what started those physical processes?

[@Erosistheonlyreal]

Listen to 4:40-5:08 for your answer. He makes it clear there. We have leaned into a certain metaphysical perspective and have been instantiating the consequences of that perspective for hundreds of years, and those consequences have only accelerated with time.