ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief note on social ecology. It offers an exposition of the main argument, recapitulates some of its key planks and also injects a little development. The ecological university has an ecological concern that goes well beyond the natural environment to embrace the world as such, including the social world, in all of its economic, epistemological, cultural, psychological and more strictly social aspects. The ecological university acknowledges that there are at stake legitimate human interests, although it does not especially privilege such interests. It recognizes that human and particularly social responsibilities attach to matters that can be said to be ecological in character. An ecological approach considers that the elements which present themselves in the world do not necessarily constitute the totality of elements, whether impaired or not. A social ecology necessarily involves ecological wisdom; that is, a stance that seeks transcendence from the world while remaining part of the world.
