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I once myself asked the question whether the East can help teach the West how to value nature. I found Talukder's analysis of my own worries insightful. Holmes Rolston IIIUniversity Distinguished Professor and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Colorado State University, USA The author gives a clear and instructive overview of the attitudes to self and nature in the Western (Greco-Roman), as well as the Eastern (Indian and Chinese) traditions, starting with the environmental problems facing humanity and modern philosophers' attempts to cope with them, in particular the deep ecology of Arne Naess. He focuses on identification as a value that is common to all traditions. Olav AsheimEmeritus Professor of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway

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Md. Munir Hossain Talukder, PhD, is a Professor of Philosophy at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. He received his PhD in Comparative Environmental Philosophy and Ethics from the National University of Singapore and a Master's degree in Applied Ethics from Linkoeping University, Sweden, and Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has published several journal articles on bioethics, political philosophy and environmental ethics, and served as a member of the editorial boards of various academic journals. His work Self, Nature, and Cultural Values was translated into Italian as Una Nuova 'Filosofia' Ambientale [A New Environmental 'Philosophy']. As Adjunct Faculty, he also teaches at North South University, Bangladesh.

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