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doc. Mgr. Richard Sťahel, PhD.
PhD study topics for the academic year 2023/2024
Philosophical background of the ecological civilization conceptAnnotation:The concept of ecological civilization originated in the 1980s. It was subsequently developed by Roy Morrison, who understands ecological civilization as the result of the transformation of real industrial democracies into ecological democracies that more account of citizens´ interests in maintaining an environment conductive to organized human society than industry interests in the availability of cheap natural resources. In the background of the concept of ecological civilization are several philosophical concepts – from political to ontological. The aim of work is to identify them and analyze the extent of their impact of the current form of the concept of ecological civilization. |
The concept of democracy in the context of environmental political philosophyAnnotation:The concept of environmental political philosophy points to the weaknesses and contradictions of contemporary real democracies. They are based on such concepts of man, society and economy that do not take into account the finitude of natural resources as well as the limited ability of the planetary system to absorb pollution caused by all human activities. Real constitutional democracies determined by industrialism and the imperial way of life are therefore unable to ensure the long-term sustainability of the socio-economic, let alone the environmental, conditions of their existence. Environmental political philosophy points out that the deteriorating social and environmental conditions of life on the planet in the climatic, demographic and economic regime of the Anthropocene lead to circumventing or violating the basic constitutional principles on which the legitimacy of contemporary constitutional democracies rests. The aim of the thesis is to identify and formulate the principles of the concept of environmental democracy, i.e. a concept that would on the one hand preserve the basic democratic constitutional principles and at the same time reconcile them with the current knowledge of the Earth sciences about the vulnerability of the planetary system. |
The emergence and development of the idea of environmental democracy within political ecologyAnnotation:Political ecology as a discipline focused on the research of political, economic and social relations affecting the environment arose in the 1970s. As part of research into the determination of power relations by the state of the environment and their impact on the devastation of the environmental conditions of the existence of an organized human society, also started to take shape the idea of ecological, or environmental democracy. Democracy as a philosophical concept thus acquired a new aspect of meaning, which, however, underwent a dynamic development. The aim of the thesis is to map this development and analyze its relevance for environmental political philosophy. |