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Join Dr Endalkachew Hailu Guluma and Professor Workineh Kelbessa discuss traditional ecological thoughts, knowledge, and practices of the Aari of Southern Ethiopia with an aim in gleaning lessons from indigenous environmental philosophy in Ethiopia.
Dr Guluma will draw on traditional African thoughts and selective appropriation of modern in order to overcome ecological imperialism and forge a synergized environmental conservation model.
Professor Kelbessa will discuss the nature and implications of indigenous environmental philosophy in Ethiopia, using cross-cultural perspectives. He will argue that reflections on indigenous environmental ethics and philosophy in Ethiopia can offer some lessons for modern environmental philosophy and policy, namely: an ethic of preservation and production, the interdependence and interconnectedness of human and nonhuman species, deep concern for future generations, the concern to preserve all species, the unity of human beings and the natural environment, the importance of a positive rather than purely exploitative relationship with the environment, an appreciation of the Earth as the Mother of life, intra- and intergenerational justice, environmental justice, and animal ethics.
The speakers will discuss the importance for philosophers and other intellectuals should descend from their ivory towers and search out, record, learn from, and critically study oral and non-academic sources of wisdom in different parts of the world. It must be recognized that such an approach to addressing global issues is absolutely necessary if the full range of human wisdom is to be brought to bear on the health of our planet and its inhabitants.
Speakers:
Dr Endalkachew Hailu Guluma is Assistant Professor of Literature at Arba Minch University Ethiopia and he is a 2020 AfOx-TORCH Fellow.
Workineh Kelbessa is Professor of Philosophy at Addis Ababa University, and A Senior Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.
Chair:
Professor John Broome Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
