What is Ecological Civilization and why is it important now? How can economic growth be reconciled with ecological limits? How do contemporary expressions of very old ideas in Chinese cultural history contribute to Ecological Civilization?
In this Forum, Daniel K. Gardner draws on decades of scholarship on Confucian and Neo-Confucian traditions to explore how “reading” can function as a formative discipline: training attention, moral discernment, and a sense of obligation to the common good.
Moving beyond slogans, we’ll examine Daoism as a living intellectual and ethical tradition with relevance for contemporary challenges: environmental governance, cultural renewal, and the formation of ecological values in public life.
This Forum marks the launch (and guided tour) of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology’s new Ecological Civilization online website.