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课程名称：托马斯·贝瑞的世界观：地球共同体的繁荣 课程概述：托马斯·贝瑞（1914-2009）是世界宗教历史学家，也是较早觉醒环保危机道德意识的声音之一。他以阐述“新故事”而闻名，该故事探讨了进化科学和文化传统对创造繁荣未来的启示。本课程研究贝瑞的生平及思想，围绕宇宙之旅项目展开，借助他的书籍、文章及录音讲座，深入探讨“新故事”、“伟大事业”及新兴的生态纪元等理念。课程还探讨了贝瑞对宇宙学的见解，帮助人们在不断展开的宇宙中定位人类，从而参与当代创造性的工作。特别地，我们将审视贝瑞关于生态、经济、教育、灵性和艺术等领域的更新与改革的思考。 课程理由：托马斯·贝瑞是一位原始、富有创意且全面的思想家，尤其在全球环境危机的关键性方面具有深刻的见解。他通过将人文学科与科学结合在一起，提出了应对生态危机的演进叙述。他强调世界宗教在解决环境问题中道德参与的必要性，这一认识源于他对宗教传统中嵌入的宇宙学的研究。他认为这些故事作为“功能性宇宙学”具有重要意义，通过仪式、伦理和生存实践等方式广泛传播。 课程大纲： 1. 引言 - 托马斯·贝瑞作为文化历史学家：玛丽·埃芙琳和约翰分享他们与托马斯·贝瑞的初次相遇。 2. 托马斯·贝瑞对世界文化和宗教的研究：贝瑞作为地球文化的学者，激励他人理解科学的宇宙故事与世界宗教同等重要，需与世界文化整合。 3. 皮埃尔·泰雅尔·德·沙尔丹的影响：了解泰雅尔如何启发贝瑞，发现特殊相对论如何展示“内在”的无处不在。 4. “新故事”：贝瑞的差异性、主体性和共融性为人类提供的新故事的整体指导。 5. 宇宙学与生态学：贝瑞关于人类是地球共同体的衍生物的理念，为迈向生态纪元提供了主要的指导原则。 6. 伟大事业与生态纪元：生物层面上，我们时代正在重新编写地球的过程，当自然选择被文化选择所超越时，人类的决策变成了地质层面的影响。贝瑞总结说，我们时代的关键任务是通过故事和共同的梦想体验来重新发明人类物种与地球生命系统之间的联系。
Part: 1
Title:Introduction - Thomas Berry as Cultural Historian
Description:Mary Evelyn and John talk about their first encounters with Thomas Berry.
Part: 2
Title:Thomas Berry’s Study of World Cultures and Religions
Description:Thomas Berry was a scholar of Earth’s cultures; someone who inspired others to understand that the scientific story of the universe was a primary revelation, on the part with the world’s religions, and needing to be integrated with world’s cultures.
Part: 3
Title:Influence of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Description:Learn how Pierre Teilhard de Chardin inspired Thomas Berry. Discover Special Relativity as a way of showing the omnipresence of the “within.”
Part: 4
Title:“The New Story”
Description:Thomas Berry’s Differentiation, Subjectivity, and Communion as the overall guidance the New Story provides for humanity.
Part: 5
Title:Cosmology and Ecology
Description:Thomas Berry's notion of the human as being derivative of the Earth Community: a primary governing principle for moving into the ecological era.
Part: 6
Title:The Great Work and the Ecozoic Era
Description:From a biological level, what is happening in our time is a recoding of Earth’s processes when natural selection is being overpowered by cultural selection, so that human decision has become geological in its reach. Thomas Berry summarized this by saying that the crucial task of our time is to reinvent the human species with the systems of Earth’s life by means of story and shared dream experience.
Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a historian of world religions and an early voice awakening moral sensibilities to the environmental crisis. He is known for articulating a “new story” of the universe that explores the implications of the evolutionary sciences and cultural traditions for creating a flourishing future. This course investigates Berry’s life and thought in relation to the Journey of the Universe project. It draws on his books, articles, and recorded lectures to examine such ideas as: the New Story, the Great Work, and the emerging Ecozoic era. The course explores Berry’s insights into cosmology as a context for locating the human in a dynamic unfolding universe and thus participating in the creative work of our times. In particular, we will examine Berry’s reflections on renewal and reform in the areas of ecology, economics, education, spirituality, and the arts. Course Rationale: Thomas Berry was an original, creative, and comprehensive thinker, especially regarding the critical nature of our global environmental crisis. His intellectual importance resides in his response to the ecological crisis by bringing together the humanities and science in an evolutionary narrative. In addition, he articulated the need for the moral participation of the world religions in addressing environmental issues. He came to this realization largely through his study of cosmologies embedded within religious traditions. Sensing the significance of these stories as “functional cosmologies” he explored the widespread influence that these stories transmitted through a tradition, for example, in rituals, ethics, and subsistence practices.
