Borges contemporary

Usage examples of eco.

Ego and Eco were still staring at each other across an unbridgeable gulf, and the two absolutisms were altogether incompatible.

Ego camps still absolutize the noosphere, the Eco camps are still absolutizing the biosphere, utterly unaware that this contributes every bit as much as the Ego camps to the destruction of the biosphere itself.

Ego means the less of Eco, and vice versawith no way whatsoever to consolidate their equally important claims in a new and emergent and integrative growth.

Eco camp, self-isolated agency, however important, had sealed off the rich networks of unions and communions with nature and other cultures, and thus the more reenchanted the world, the better.

Ego, of inserting it back into the larger currents of Life and Love, the Eco camps ended up inadvertently, paradoxicallychampioning modes of knowing and feeling that were supremely egocentric and flagrantly narcissistic.

Idealist movement was, in the West, the last great attempt to introduce true Ascent and, most important, to integrate it believably with true Descentthe Ego and the Eco both taken up, preserved and negated, honored and released, in all-encompassing Spirit.

Eco camps would seize most immediately upon the repressions and exclusionary practices that reason could, and often did, bring in its wake.

Taylor summarizes the seemingly impossible task of rEconciling Ego and Eco, Fichte and Spinoza, Mind and Nature, Ascent and Descent, Subjective Freedom and Objective Union.

If the Ego camps still absolutize the noosphere, the Eco camps are still absolutizing the biosphere, utterly unaware that this contributes every bit as much as the Ego camps to the destruction of the biosphere itself.

The Ego and the Eco will never be integrated in this scheme, with the one absolutizing the noosphere and the other absolutizing the biosphere.

THE EGO AND THE Eco We earlier noted the altogether extraordinary paradox of the Enlightenment paradigm: the holism of nature produced the atomism of the self.

THE LEGACY OF THE IDEALISTS The Idealist movement was, in the West, the last great attempt to introduce true Ascent and, most important, to integrate it believably with true Descentthe Ego and the Eco both taken up, preserved and negated, honored and released, in all-encompassing Spirit.

Eco camp, on the other hand, was desperately reaching out for a larger and more variegated Life and Love, enriched with the communions of all imaginable varietyin nature and in other culturesand promoting diversity and egalitarianism with a passion.

For the Eco camp, self-isolated agency, however important, had sealed off the rich networks of unions and communions with nature and other cultures, and thus the more reenchanted the world, the better.

Schelling's brilliant synthesis and integration of the Ego and the Eco stand in sharp contrast to the plethora of today's approaches to the environment, which still typically pursue either the Egoic-rational calculative adventure ("reform environmentalism"), or fall into various forms of regressive Eco-Romantic "reechantment.