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5.6 Conclusion Mankind has long been driven to seek power. Our obsession with the use and abuse of power over our fellow man and environment, has been ineluctably integrated into the broader framework of ‘power epistemology’, within which issues of human rights and the fate of the species on Earth are subservient to the prevailingContinue…

5.5 Empathetic Epistemology and New Directions in Environmental Education In what follows I shall now argue that the humanitarian ideals which define this theme are also marginalized by the epistemology of power and transformative subjugation. The moral tension which exists arises partly from a conflict of epistemic values which define the goals of engineering pedagogyContinue…

5.4 Transformative Subjugation and Conformity We have transformed all of physical reality into a giant testing site and then attempted to discover predictable patterns of behavior that can be exploited over and over in such a way as to advance our control over the forces of nature. The more successful we are at imperializing ourContinue…