The Human Eros explores themes in classical American philosophy,
primarily the thought of John Dewey, but also that of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, George Santayana, and Native American traditions.
Alexander’s primary claim is that human beings have an inherent
need to experience meaning and value, a “Human Eros.” Our
various cultures are symbolic environments or “spiritual
ecologies” within which the Human Eros seeks to thrive. This is
how we inhabit the earth. Encircling and sustaining our cultural
existence is nature, yet Western philosophy has not provided
adequate conceptual models for thinking ecologically. Alexander
introduces the idea of “eco-ontology” to explore ways in which
this might be done, beginning with the primacy of Nature over Being
but also including the recognition of possibility and potentiality
as inherent aspects of existence. He argues for the centrality of
Dewey’s thought to an effective ecological philosophy. Both
“pragmatism” and “naturalism,” he shows, need to be
contextualized within an emergentist, relational, nonreductive view
of nature and an aesthetic, imaginative, nonreductive view of
intelligence.
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