395) Andreas Weber: The ecological dimension of love
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, and writer, whose work focuses on re-evaluating our understanding of the living and dying. Andreas proposes understanding organisms as subjects, and hence the biosphere, as a meaning-creating and poetic reality. Accordingly, he holds that an economy inspired by nature should not be designed as a mechanistic optimisation machine, but rather as an ecosystem which transforms the mutual sharing of matter and energy into deeper meaning.
Reflecting on his former education in biology and marine science, Andreas enriches a discourse on the limitations of objectivity under a strictly scientific lens. Through a “both-and” perspective, Andreas walks us through what he calls “poetic ecology,” as he navigates the nuance of ecological Eros of tapping into the aliveness of being. This aliveness, he proposes, emerges from a sense of desire, which within a Western worldview tends to exclude more-than-human relationships. However, by respectfully acknowledging other worldviews of dividuality, rather than just individuality, Andreas signals the attention given to our inner experiences of Eros that inevitably enhance the aliveness of the whole.
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| 1:40.4 | So love is absolutely central, but love doesn't not necessarily need to mean love only in human terms. |
| 1:49.0 | It needs to have this structure of being interested in the aliveness of others. |
| 1:53.8 | And then we see that it's actually a feature of reality. |
| 1:58.6 | Today we're speaking with Dr. Andreas Weber, a Berlin-based book and magazine writer and independent scholar, |
| 2:06.4 | whose books include matter and desire, an erotic ecology, the biology of wonder, |
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