As part of this year's eighth seminar of the Traveling University of Nature "Anima Animalia and the Rights of Nature" (DOTEK in Horní Maršov), on Thursday, August 11, leading Australian eco-philosopher Freya Mathews gave an online lecture "Let Animals and Nature Do More Work", in which she summarized some of the conclusions of her latest book The Dao of Civilization (Tao Civilizace, 2023). In it, she reflected on the...
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Freya Mathews: Life with Animals
This article by Freya Mathews was originally published under the title 'Living with Animals' in Animal Issues (vol I, no I, 1997. pp 4-16); translated by Jiří Zemánek. Freya Mathews is also the author of Without Animals Life Is Not Worth Living / Bez zvítár život nemá cenu žit (Ginninderra Press 2016), in which, in a gripping story about a pig named Pookie and a philosopher…
Freya Mathews: On Greatness – A Philosopher's Letter to President Putin
As a nation with a unique opportunity to unleash the Earth’s forces to re-regulate its systems and secure the future of human civilization, Russia could well deserve the gratitude and recognition of all. Freya Mathews A leading Australian philosopher today, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Philosophy at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Freya Mathews reminds us in this letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin that…
Freya Mathews: As Nature Wishes
Freya Mathews is an Associate Professor of Environmental Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. Mathews’ philosophy is rooted in panpsychism, an approach that sees mentality as fundamental to the natural world. Her current main interests include the development of ecological civilization; indigenous (Australian and Chinese) perspectives on “sustainability” and how these perspectives can be adapted to the context of contemporary global society; the return of humans to the wild…
Jiří Zemánek: On synergy I. or How to think and create from within the world – lessons from Frey Mathews
To live is to dance with an unknown partner whose steps we can never fully predict... David Abram (The Invisible World) How do we overcome that detached attitude that is characteristic of our Western objectifying approach to reality and how do we "return to the world", how do we reanimate it and renew our ethical relationship with it? How do we open ourselves to synergy with humans and with other animals...