Peter wessel zapffe biography of abraham
The English translation of On the Tragic by the Norwegian philosopher, writer, and environmentalist Peter Wessel Zapffe is a major achievement.
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OpenAirPhilosophy
Environmental philosophy project
OpenAirPhilosophy is a project presenting a selection of the work in environmental philosophy of Norwegian philosophers Arne Naess, Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng, and Peter Wessel Zapffe.[1][2]
The project promotes the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, as well as looking at restructuring modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.
The project's website holds biographies, selected works and interviews of the three philosophers.
The name of the project comes from a practice in Norway called friluftsliv, which translates as “open-air life.”[3] The term evokes a sense of belonging to the land, making friends with free nature.[4]
Arne Naess, the father of “Deep ecology", was always searching for the existence of what he called “greatness other than human.” Far from moralizing about how other people ought to live, he would invite