The Contribution of Educational Philosophers to a Turbulent World: “Ecological Intelligence” as the Engagement of Philosophically Minded Researchers in World Peace

Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

• Michael A. Peters ¹
• Mojtaba Elahi Khorasani ²

¹ Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University and Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois, USA

² Professor at Hawzah Ilmiyyah Khorassan Seminary, Mashhad, Iran

10.22067/fedu.2025.46536

Abstract

Philosophies of world peace can be seen as an evolutionary goal of higher consciousness—one that unites the personal, social, national, and international dimensions of human existence into an interconnected web of life. This vision seeks the elimination of all forms of personal and social violence, fostering a spiritual essence rooted in higher ecological intelligence (Golman, 2009). Such intelligence emerges from a philosophical and scientific awakening to natural processes, biodiversity, and planetary consciousness. It fosters an understanding based on the shared epistemology of complex natural and AI systems (complexity, relational ontology, self-organization, nonlinearity, feedback, adaptive learning, distributive knowledge, scalability and criticality). The rise of this awareness, integral to educational philosophy (both ecology and peace), offers humanity a pathway to align education with the goals of peace, justice, and sustainability in a turbulent world. New  Earth  Philosophy  inspired by Wittgenstein grounded  in current  scientific  and  philosophical  understanding  seeks  practical  solutions  to real-world problems  ‘after the apocalypse’ linked to  ‘Being-together’  and  the  birth  of  planetary  consciousness (Peters, 2024a,b).

Keywords

• ecological intelligence
• global peace and sustainability
• planetary consciousness
• complexity and relational ontology

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مترجم: محمدرضا اسماعیل پورمقدم، دانشجوی دکتری فلسفه تعلیم و تربیت دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد

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https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5566-4778

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