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Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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Darwin

The Law is in the ground

November 28, 2016

Of the many voices I included in Kissed by a Fox, one has stayed with me longer than just about any other. That voice belongs to Doug Campbell, an Aboriginal man from Australia who worked with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose. Campbell said in Rose’s Dingo Makes Us Human, You see that hill over there?…  Read More…

Tagged With: Aboriginal philosophy, breathing, capitalism, choice, competition, cooperation, Darwin, Deborah Bird Rose, Earth law, ecocide, ecocommunity, ecological economics, evolution, law, laws of nature, natural law, reciprocity, rights of nature

 

Snuggle for survival

July 25, 2016

The phrase leaped out at me—from the pages of Scientific American, no less. Martin Nowak, a mathematician, biologist, and director of a program in evolutionary theory at Harvard, was arguing that cooperation, not just competition, advances evolution. In Nowak’s words: Life is therefore not just a struggle for survival—it is also, one might say, a…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward animals, attitudes toward nature, capitalism, competition, cooperation, Darwin, economics, enclosure of the commons, evolution, Hobbes, human nature, Malthus, natural selection, struggle for existence

 

What Is natural? What Is supernatural?

July 4, 2016

“Natural” and “supernatural” used to be easy to tell apart. The natural world followed laws of nature—in short, anything we can see and touch. The supernatural did not. Mind-body split The division makes sense if you accept the idea of Descartes (borrowed from Plato and the Greeks) that mind and body are separate. After Descartes,…  Read More…

Tagged With: animals, attitudes toward animals, cosmology, Darwin, Descartes, God, love, materialism, matter-spirit split, mechanical physics, mechanism, mind-body split, natural-supernatural split, scientific method

 

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