International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 11 Number: 1 Page: 54–57
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Living on the Edge in Micronesian Ecological Philosophy
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James D. Sellman
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Philosophy is a human attempt to understand our place in the natural environment. Environmental philosophy provides a gateway to develop a heuristic model to understand Micronesian philosophy. To study
Micronesian philosophy is in large part to examine Micronesian environmental philosophy. Micronesian philosophy is based on correlative or analogical thinking – a type of thinking that is fairly common
in the Asia-Pacific region but differs markedly from modern, scientific, causal thinking. In Micronesian correlative thinking the world consists of interacting bi-polar forces. Cosmology and ethics, 'is'
and 'ought', are not separate. Micronesian environmental ethics is rooted in environmental philosophy.
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