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2001 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Man’s Place in Nature — Past and Future

verfasst von : Hubert S. Markl

Erschienen in: Understanding the Earth System

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Through the evolution of the conscious mind in the human species, nature became aware of itself and can thus, for the first time in more than three billion years of natural evolution, influence and even to some degree take control of its own future development according to intentional goals. Since these goals are at the same time inevitably our own wishful visions, our species becomes not only nature’s managing agent but also morally responsible for the future of nature including our own future.

Metadaten
Titel
Man’s Place in Nature — Past and Future
verfasst von
Hubert S. Markl
Copyright-Jahr
2001
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56843-5_5