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Descartes Did Not Cut the Forest Ecological Distortion and the Search for a Relational Worldview

2026-06-09

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Understandably, René Descartes did not cut down forests, poisoned rivers, established colonial plantations, or built the industries now associated with ecological destruction. Various studied, nevertheless, Cartesian dualism contributed to a modern philosophical order in which the thinking human subject could be imagined as separate from a passive, measurable, and mechanically ordered material world. This article,...

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Literature Corpus work: 8198a8ae-960d-523f-a8fe-d01bd00c8e22
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202606.0659.v1

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