THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

oikos = household Ecosophy Wisdom of the household
Sophia = Widom Ecology Knowledge of the
household
logos = knowledge
nomos = rule Economy Rules of the Household
'Ecosophy is about how to live wisely on this planet. How our
economic, monetary, business, political, psychological and ecological
constructs and activities all interact and affect our collective presence
on this planet. It constitutes the indispensable common foundation
underlying any one of the fields of knowledge mentioned earlier. It
looks at the human species within me context of me boarder
biosphere with which we are interdependent. '
Ecosophy is only one of the signs that our civilisation has moved
from Modernism to what we now call the Age of integration. The
main seeds for this shin can be traced to changes in interpretation of
me physical universe which started over a century ago. Exactly like
what happened with previous mutations in world-views - as for
instance the Copernican revolution five centuries ago - n is ms
interpretation of the physical universe, which has provided the
leading indicator of a shin in civilisation.
'For many centuries people had seen Mother Nature so an orderly
extrapolation of the human mind. Descartes saw her as spiritless
matter, which could be apprehended only by analysis of smaller and
smaller parts. Newton saw her as a well-behaved inert machine set in
motion by God and driven by eternal laws, the knowledge of which
would deliver her to our control. All this started to change when the
theories of relativity, quantum physics of the first half of the century,
and the theories of non- duality and complexity of the second half,
became accepted as valid interpretations of reality. They provided
the mental framework for our are. The works of Einstein, Heisenberg,
Bohr, and later in last century Bohr, Feynman, Prigogine and the