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The ecumene to Thule , a length of 30 000 stages. Description prigtique was less accurate, relying solely on heterogeneous materials (testimony of trips). The map of Eratosthenes was supplemented by a topographical description and remarks on human activity and the economy.

The ecumene occupied a quarter of the earth's surface, stretching from the Pillars of Hercules to the west of Alexander to the columns to the east, a distance of about 120 to 180 degrees.

C. 220 BC. BC, Eratosthenes described the globe into five parallel zones: the heat wave band centered on the equator , two polar caps, one at each pole , and two temperate zones, between the heat and ice caps.

Usage philosophical

The ecumene has a larger reality than just all inhabited lands, the term also includes the relationship of man to the living space, a sort of encompassing Karl Jaspers that would address the geography. Because the ecumene concept can not be detached from a reflection ontological , if the human being is created with its temporality as Bergson has shown, it also creates with its spatiality, its own vision of space that he appropriates. Thus ecumene detaches from simple geography to enter fully into the philosophy of being as focused on the show Berque Augustine in his work.

The ecumene designating the civilized world, it is conceivable that (too) long the West has cut ecumene philosophy by excluding the Indian philosophy , the philosophy of Chinese and Japanese philosophy. We find this use of the concept in Bernard Stevens , who takes over for his part in Augustin Berque.

In literature

In his five-volume work La Geste des Princes-Demons , American writer of science fiction Jack Vance called ecumenism civilized and civilized portion of our galaxy , a large part was colonized by humans in the distant future.

Note

The word is also spelled as cecumene, ecumenical, or inhabited world ocoumne (Jacques Blamont). Gender has also never been fixed: it is generally male, though some authors, like Augustine Berque, use it to better meet the feminine gender of the original Greek word. It should be noted that in ancient Greek, the word is an adjective (exactly, a participle), by definition, without gender, which qualifies the word (land): this word is feminine.
City on the Nile , in the present Sudan , which disappeared in ^the fourth century , which remain substantial remains.
The name given by the ancients to an island in northern Europe, perhaps the Iceland or one of the islands Shetland.

Bibliography

Roger Brunet , Robert Ferras and Herv Thry (Eds.), Words of geography, critical dictionary, Reclus-French Documentation, 1992, 3rd ed. 1993 (518 p). ISBN 2-11-003036-4
Augustin Berque , mediance media landscapes, Belin , Paris, 1990, reprint 2000.
Augustin Berque , Ecumene. Introduction to the study of human environments, Belin , collection Globe, Paris, 2000 (272 p). ISBN 2-7011-2381-X
Jacques Blamont, Le Chiffre and the Dream, political history of the discovery, Editions Odile Jacob, 1993. ISBN 2-7381-0193-3.