Daoizmas, Fengshui, Ekologija Šiuolaikiniame Pasaulyje Ir Lietuvoje: Kinijos Ir Vakarų Filosofijų Sąveikos Bei Recepcijos Pavyzdys
Daoism, Fengshui, and Ecology in the Contemporary World and Lithuania: The Example of Reciprocity between Chinese and Western Philosophies and the Reception of Chinese Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: There is already more than half century, since Daoism was made in the West into the resource of alternative ideas in the pursue of new, non-traditional ways for the solution of contemporary ecological problems. Such optimistic view toward Daoism as a kind of panacea gave birth to it‘s romantization, idealization or even apologization, which recently is met my more sceptical and critical attitudes toward the posibility of its „ecologization“, or the aplication of its ideas to the contemporary environmental philosophy and practice. The aim of the article is to discuss and analyse the aspects and main Daoist concepts, by which Daoism is related to ecological thought , as well as one of Chinese ‚ecological“ practice of fengshui, which became very popular not only in United States, China and Europe, but also in Lithuania. The article will discuss its intepretation in Lithuania and the West, and the consequences of such intepretations for the interaction of Chinese and Western cultures. Also, there will be presented the most prominent critical and sceptical views, expressed by Western sinologists and Chinese Daoist practitioners, toward the „ecologization“ of Daoism, with the particular attention to their understanding of Daoist concepts, such as death, fate, „non-action“ (wuwei), questioning the posibility or non-posibility of their application to the Western ecological thought.

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