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The 4 th COMEST E thics Of Science and Technology Inspired by S piritual M aturity

Explore the intersection of environmental ethics, spirituality, and sustainable development in this conference. Discover the failures of instrumental value theories and the need for deeper ecological awareness. Find out how spiritual traditions can guide us towards a more balanced and integrated approach to science and technology.

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The 4 th COMEST E thics Of Science and Technology Inspired by S piritual M aturity

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  1. The 4th COMESTEthics Of Science and TechnologyInspired bySpiritual Maturity Chamniern Paul Vorratnchaiphan Thailand Environment Institute chamniern@tei.or.th

  2. Three snapshots: Three snapshots: • Kyoto Protocol • The World Summit on Sustainable Development • The Millenium Development Goals

  3. Earth, Our Home…. • The Protection of Earth’s vitality, diversity, and beauty is a scared trust • To realize these aspirations, we must decide to live with a sense of universal responsibility, identifying ourselves with the whole Earth community as well as our local communities

  4. Respect Earth and life in all its diversity, • Care for the community of life with understanding, compassion, and love, • Eradicate poverty as an ethical, social, environmental imperative, • This requires a change of mind and heart.

  5. Failures Failures • Instrumental Value Theories • Economic instruments • Political Economy of decision making

  6. THESE ARE NOT strong enough to protect nature from human induced destruction

  7. Environmental Ethics characterise environmental predicaments a crisis of culture and character • What is the cause ?? What is the answer/way out?? • Deep Ecology = Intrinsic Values • Shallow Ecology = Anthropocentric

  8. Failures Spirituality Spirituality • Goes beyond scientific, technological, financial and environmental framework towards an awareness of the oneness of all life, the interdependence of multiple manifestations and its cycles of change and transformation • Deep EcologicalAwareness is Spiritual Awareness

  9. Failures Spirituality Spirituality Spiritual Tradition • Is a mode of consciousness in which individual and community fells connected to the cosmos, a part of the whole, not a master. No single phenomenon can fully explained.

  10. Northern region Lanna Kingdom Hill Tribes Animism Buddhism • Forest • River • Land

  11. Livelihood from nature • Destruction of the spirit and the living

  12. Respect • Gratitude • Kalayamamitra

  13. Ordination

  14. Restraining from bad deeds Respect Kindness

  15. Science & Technology Spirituality Maturity

  16. Sustainable Development In Style of ..Integration and Balanceinspired by Spiritual Maturity

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