The Perennial Imagination and the Creative Ground

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 7:30pm

Address:
Myers Convocation Center - Trustees Room
638 Jefferson Street
Ashland, OH 44805

Contact Information:
https://www.ashland.edu/calendar/3-15-16/perennial-imagination-and-creative-ground

A Symposium Against Indifference: Environmental Sustainability Program

Presenter:  Bill Vitek 

The “invention” of Agriculture 12,000 years ago marked a profound shift in how food calories were produced and consumed.  With it came new ideas about how best to live in complex cultures fueled by an unprecedented energy bounty.  In this presentation, Bill Vitek, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Clarkson University, traces the development of three distinct periods in this history, with a focus on the last two centuries and the awakening of a new consciousness about our place on a living, creative planet, and its potential to reshape food production.  With the material means and the philosophical foundations now available as sources of sustenance for body and mind, will we embrace an ecospheric worldview?  Must we?

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