The Climate Crisis, Eastern-Western Philosophies, and The "China Question" | Graham Parkes | EP. 1


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Jul 20 2022 99 mins  

This conversation is part of the series 'Philosophy and Climate Change' ('Dare to know!' Philosophy Podcast). Today we are joined by Graham Parkes. Graham Parkes is Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawai‘i and Professorial Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has been teaching environmental philosophy and Asian and comparative thought for forty-five years, beginning at UC Santa Cruz, and later at universities in China, Japan, and Europe.

He edited books such Heidegger and Asian Thoughts (1987), Nietzsche and Asian Thought (1991), Composing the Soul (1994) and translated works such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra (2005). Today we will focus on his most recent book How to Think About the Climate Crisis: A Philosophical Guide to Saner Ways of Living (2020).