Abstract
Inspired by Arne Naess’ writings on ecology, this paper explores his viewpoint about the necessity of a Deep Ecological approach and the need to take a personal ecosophical position. According to Naess, deep ecology is proceeding in two directions; it is trying to bring about a change and it is trying to develop an alternative philosophy called “eco philosophy”. While eco philosophy is a descriptive science without fundamental postulates about values, ecosophy includes the development and eliciting of norms. Arne Naess invites everybody to work out their own individual ecosophy, by which he means a philosophy of ecological harmony. This kind of sophia or wisdom is normative and contains value priorities as well as norms.
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