Desafío ecológico: Implicaciones antropológicas
Man cannot become just another object in nature under pain of destroying not only himself but nature as well. Man's "natural" environment is not nature but culture, and thus a return to nature pure and simple is impossible. Man's presence in the cosmos is active and creative; an...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Ed. Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana
1993
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Gregorianum
Year: 1993, Volume: 74, Issue: 4, Pages: 711-724 |
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| Summary: | Man cannot become just another object in nature under pain of destroying not only himself but nature as well. Man's "natural" environment is not nature but culture, and thus a return to nature pure and simple is impossible. Man's presence in the cosmos is active and creative; an activity and creativity which are free, since only man is spiritual. If man objectivises himself, he rejects the possibility of humanising himself. The relationship of man-nature is not to be understood as an arbitrary exploitation on man's part. This does not, however, impede our holding on to a fundamental thesis: man is the pinnacle of material creation and it is in and through man that nature has meaning. The respect due to nature derives from man himself, because he alone is a subject of rights proper. Nature looses its enchantment when man has first lost his own. The destruction of the natural environment inexorably shows the devastation of contemporary man's interior world. Ecologism's philosophical error regarding man is to consider him as just another object in nature. |
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