Who is James Boyes or James Bowes --the writer someone on list referred to
who set out principles of humans' attitudes towards animals and animality?
I find no references to either in our library catalog. And I already
junked the original message to the list. Thanks for any help.
Mark Jones wrote:
> Tom wrote:
>
> >It comes from man stepping away from biocentric diversity and
> assuming a
> kind of false sense of control over nature. Capitalism didn't invent
> this,
> but rather inherited it from a long succession of other systems, most
> notably feudalism which perfected it via religion. Since this sense of
> control is imbedded in our culture more deeply than even capitalism,
> the
> removal of capitalism does not solve the problem.<
>
> I do agree with this.
>
> I do think that to a larger extent than we realise, we are still in
> the grip of a 'stageist' theory of history (whose chief authors,
> funnily enough, were probably Frederick Engels and Vladimir Lenin, but
> whose real origins go back to Rousseau). I am glad of the work of
> Andre Gunder Frank and of Jim Blaut (a member of this List) and others
> who have not only critiqued Eurocentric theories of history, but have
> also (especially Frank) taught us to think again about the meaning and
> nature of "capitalism", a supposedly-unique epoch and social formation
> which was birthed in England in the late 18th century. Frank,
> especially in his last book ReOrient, has challenged this
> conceptualisation of capitalism as a discrete and unique formation, a
> conceptualisation which is coterminous with capitalism and was born in
> the work of Enlightenment savants after 1750. Indeed, the more you
> look at the *continuities* that exist, the more doubtful it becomes
> that there is anything unique about industrial capitalism at all,
> other than the use of fossil fuel. Few of its institutions do not have
> precedents in earlier societies, particularly in Asia and above all,
> China.
>
> I also highly recommend Jack Goldstone's essays, several of which are
> on the CrashList website.
>
> So yes, it is profoundly true that even after we get rid of industrial
> capitalism, we shall not have solved the problem. That will require
> replacing patterns of behaviour which do indeed have medieval
> religious roots, in Christianity especially (but other world religions
> also objectified Nature in a way which has permitted and legitimated
> later human predation of the natural world, extending now even to the
> plunder of our own DNA, the last of the great commons, and now in
> process of privatisation).
>
> Yes, we shall have to create new Institutes of Accord (as the great
> Soviet environmentalist and physicist Nikita Moiseev put it), to
> govern both inter-human relationships and relationships between homo
> sapiens and the rest of nature.
>
> BTW, I meant to say how grateful I am to Karl North for his posting of
> the Bowes article.
>
> Mark
>
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