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The Role of Human Agency in the Environmental Degradation

Santosa, Nyong Eka Teguh Iman
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Santosa, Nyong Eka Teguh Iman
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environmental degradation
islamic ethics
human agency
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Cultural ethics
Secularisation and ethics
Environmental ethics
Resources ethics
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Islamic Ethics
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The Qur’an 30:41 as interpreted by Hamka and M. Quraish Shihab confirms the relationship between environmental degradation and human’s deeds. Environmental degradation is mostly caused by human transgressions in treating the nature. Benefitting recent scientific findings about environmental degradation, certain moral judgment is possible taken toward any evil against nature, beyond both exegetes’ metaphysical reason. In the existing commentaries of this verse, God’s teleological design on the nature seems only to be possible reconciled with the agency of human beings by using ‘the eyes of believers’, not those who disbelieves the existence of God. Finally, human conception about man-nature relation and also God-man relation has such influence upon the environmental destiny. All these accounts persuade us to be more eco-friendly in our present and future.
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