Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the conference
of the Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics
in June 2008, and at the Quality in Postgraduate Research
conference held in Adelaide in April 2008., Although postgraduate research is

Suggests that we are reaching a crisis in the Western worldview where abstract thinking has lost touch with nature as untrammelled growth leads to chaos
in the money markets, global warming
and violence. The purely rational
worldview which began with…