Title: The western roots of sustainable biotechnology and the promise of Mulla Sadra's Islamic cosmology

Authors: John F. Quinn, Joseph A. Petrick

Addresses: Department of Philosophy, University of Dayton, 477 Humanities Hall, Dayton, Ohio 45469, USA. ' Department of Management, Wright State University, 206 Rike Hall, Dayton, Ohio 45435, USA

Abstract: The authors review the three major western cosmological roots of biotechnology and the interdisciplinary challenges that face its sustainable environmental impact. They delineate the Islamic environmental philosophy of Mulla Sadra to provide a non-western cosmological framework for the global challenge presented by sustainable biotechnology. Comparisons and contrasts between the western cosmologies and the cosmology of Mulla Sadra are drawn and two useful human responsibilities in Mulla Sadra|s environmental philosophy are treated.

Keywords: sustainable biotechnology; Mulla Sadra; Islamic cosmology; environmental impact; sustainable development; sustainability; Islamic environmental philosophy; Islam.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2000.053855

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2000 Vol.2 No.1, pp.1 - 18

Published online: 13 May 2013 *

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