The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy

Volume 22, 1998

Philosophy and the Environment

Józef M. Dolêga
Pages 9-15

Sozology and Ecophilosophy
Sciences of the 20th Century

This paper contains a synthesized profile of sozology and ecophilosophy, sciences of the end of the 20th century. Sozology is defined as the science of the systematic protection of the biosphere from the destructive effects on it from the anthroposphere. On the other hand, ecophilosophy is understood as the science whose object of study is the essence and nature of the socio-natural environment, its quantitative and qualitative properties and the causal dependence between the anthroposphere and biosphere. I hope that both these sciences will enter permanently into the world’s educational systems in the 21st century.