Widely regarded as the foremost Norwegian philosopher and one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, Arne Naess was an inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century. He is perhaps most known as the person who coined the term “deep ecology,” an approach to environmental problems that looks for its roots deep in the structure of our western society and the worldviews that guide it. He later preferred the term “ecosophy”, which we use here to distinguish between the philosophy underlying Deep Ecology, and the group practices themselves.
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Profile: Arne Naess
Widely regarded as the foremost Norwegian philosopher and one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, Arne Naess was an inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the […]
A Biography of Arne Naess
(https://openairphilosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OAP_Naess_Biography.pdf)
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Video: The Deep Ecology Movement with Alan Drengson
Audio of an interview with Alan Drengson from Greenradio on youtube, R. Alan Drengson explains the origins and principles of the deep ecology movement, while speaking of its founder, Norwegian […]
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Article: “What is Deep Ecology Philosophy” at Treehugger.com
Back in 2021, this helpful article about deep ecology was published on treehugger.com. It in includes an overview of the history of the movement, as well as a concise summary […]
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Philosophy in the Mountains: ABC radio show about Arne Naess and interview John Seed.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/philosophy-in-the-mountains—arne-naess/3176186 “Arne Næss, who died in January just a couple of weeks short of his ninety-seventh birthday, was a great mountaineer and part of the history of twentieth-century philosophy. He […]
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Article: The Shallow and the Deep, long-Range Ecology Movement, A Summary, by Arne Naess
The emergence of ecologists from their formerrelative obscurity marks a turning point in ourscientific communities. Their message, however,is twisted and misused. A shallow, but currentlyrather powerful movement, and a deep, […]
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The Ecosophy Platform
In his “eight-point platform,” formulated together with George Sessions in 1984 while the two were camping in Death Valley, California, Arne Naess offers a convenient overview of deep-ecological principles. It […]
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Article: Self-Realization Beyond the Human: Arne Næss and Norwegian Deep Ecology
As if this simplicity and inaccessibility were not enough, Næss built, with his own hands, a three-by-three-meter refuge some 200 meters higher up on the crags of the Hallingskarvet massif, […]