Chapter 3
How the New Paradigm of Environmental Philosophy and Heritage Create a Tourism Scientific Corpus
António dos Santos
Queirós
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-5831
CFUL, Lisbon
University, Portugal
ABSTRACT
The raising of environmental philosophy and their ethics changed the concept of heritage. All domains of social activity are confronted with the necessity of rethinking their paradigm, not only the economy, but also the school, from all levels, the two political systems, capitalism and socialism, for the reason that the humankind walk to discovery the pathway to a new era, towards an ecological civilization. A short synthesis concerning the fundamental concepts of environmental philosophy will be discussed to make this debate accessible to the common people and to the common social leaders: entrepreneur, politic, journalist, teacher, student. The authors are in the domain of philosophy, political philosophy, because the critique against anthropocentrism and the critique against ethnocentrism, the concept of environmental reason, are the beacons to guide and protect the canoe of lives and to discover a new ecological civilization. The paradigm of environmental tourism is a core of this research.
