1. Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen 1/27 A Philosophical Approach on Water ETEN 2010 Myths and Fairytales Pieter Borremans

2. 2/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Environmental Education

3. 3/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Of the Child

4. 4/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Multi-perspective Nature Technology Meaning Fellow creature Livelihood Society The Artistic Man & Time Space

5. 5/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen With kind regards to... Howard Gardner Analytic Introspective Interactive

6. 6/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen What is Water ?

7. 7/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen What is the importance of Water ?

8. 8/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen What is the importance of Water ?

9. 9/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen The importance of the Story Ancient Mythology Ancient Philosophy Post Modern Thinking

10. 10/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Ancient Mythology Babylonia Apsu & Tiamat God of Godess Earthly Water of the Sea The Babylonian Enuma Elish begins: “Firm ground below had not been called by name, Naught but primordial Apsu the begetter, (and) Mummu-Tiamat, she who bore them all. Their waters commingling as a single body...” “...when creation begins because of the mixing of waters, and primordial gods give birth to other gods...”

11. 11/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Tiamat & Apsu Tiamat is the salt water, the silence of the primeval sea. She is the depth Apsu is the fresh water in the earth

12. 12/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Ancient Mythology Ancient Greece Homerus Titans Okeanos Thetys TETHYS was the Titan goddess of the sources fresh water which nourished the earth. She was the wife of OKEANOS, the earth-encircling, fresh-water stream, and the mother of the Potamoi (Rivers), Okeanides (Springs, Streams & Fountains) and Nephelai (Clouds). Tethys was imagined feeding her children's streams by drawing water from Okeanos through subterranean aquifers. Her name was derived from the Greek word têthê, "the nurse" or "grandmother."

13. 13/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Okeanos & Tethys

14. 14/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Water as a life-giving principle Hesiodus (Hesiod): ἀ φρός (aphros) "foam,” interpreting it as "risen from the silver foam" “She rose from the waves of the sea as the prettiest of all women, white as the foam, from which she was born, and amiability and sweetness lay on her smiling face and her whole being. So she got the name Aphrodite, "born from foam”, or Anadyomene, the" emerging ".” Love

15. 15/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen Ancient Philosophy the transition from mythology to philosophy involves both - discontinuity - continuity Natural Philosophy in Miletus: Materialismarchè dynamics Thales Water = beginning & principle as a life-giving principle (unfortunately: it means the ‘end’ of the story & of personification)

16. 16/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen (Post-) Modern Philosophy Zygmunt Bauman: sociologist & philosopher Globalisation Liquid Modernity * lack of certainty * tiranny of the ‘right now’ * unlimited choice * fear to make choices

17. 17/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen (Post-) Modern Philosophy Western Man = man without bounds ‘Consuming Life”... Consumentism leads to: paradox materialization of love less communication between people = avoiding conflicts

18. 18/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen (Post-) Modern Philosophy One islandOne pictureMany stories subjectivity - perspectivism

19. 19/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen La condition postmoderne (Lyotard) A plurality of language-games (discours),without any overarching structure. Modern science thus destroys its own metanarrative.

20. 20/27 Karel de Grote-Hogeschool Antwerpen La condition postmoderne (Lyotard) A plurality of language-games (discours),without any overarching structure. Modern science thus destroys its own metanarrative.

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