エドワード・カーペンターにおけるナチュラリズムの試論 : 近代文明批判の一視点

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Historically, the concept of nature has been in correlation with the sensibilities of each passing era, and classified as an individual social category. The current negative aspects of environmental destruction provoked by the domination of nature through technology has raised present ethical and moral conscienceness of people with regard to this problem. A man well ahead of his time, Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), being aware of the inescapable relationship between man and nature and striving to awaken this innate conscienceness in people, advanced a critique of modern civilization in a bid to instill his views on environmental problems into contemporary society. This paper examines the problems surrounding the interrelationship between the "outside" environment and the "inside" environment as advanced by Carpenter in his critique of modern civilization. The main thrust of his critical essay on modern civilization was the classification of two meanings for disease as a loss of oneness or as a loss of harmony. The first malady he defined as being brought on by the wasting of one's constitution by social parasitic groups, and the second malady he described as the falling from a state in which one is fully cognizant of his oneness to a state in which this oneness has disappeared. Aiming for a restoration of harmony from within the latter state, Carpenter elucidated what the basis of life is, and experimented with the aim of actualizing a revolution in lifestyles by undertaking production activities in harmony and intimate communion with nature while experiencing nature that labors to interweave nature and life `ineinanderarbeiten'.
聖学院大学の論文
1994-01-20

エドワード・カーペンターにおけるナチュラリズムの試論 : 近代文明批判の一視点

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