Environmental Consciousness Under the Formation of Scientific Paradigms

The article analyzes the relationship between environmental consciousness and scientific paradigms in the different periods of Western civilization's development. The peculiarities of the influence of classical, non-classical and post-non-classical science on the types of environmental consciousness characteristic of modern and postmodern societies are studied. The idea of the existence of a connection between the logical and philosophical attitudes of the New European (classical) science and the formation of the principles of anthropocentric environmental consciousness that have ensured the formation of the anthropogenic civilization is proved. It is determined that, within the framework of the non-classical paradigm, the theoretical and philosophical foundations of the ecocentric model of environmental consciousness are beginning to take shape. In the post-non-classical era, the model of eco-centrism and worldview orientations directed to the development of the strategy for the safe interaction of nature and man is being formed on the basis of the theories of postmodernism and under the influence of modern cognitive practices. The influence of ontological and epistemological attitudes dominating within the framework of scientific paradigms on the formation of principles of nature management in anthropocentric and ecocentric systems of ecological consciousness is traced.

Keywords

Authors

References