Azur (Jul 2021)
Introducción a una filosofía del ambiente
Abstract
Nowadays, to refer to environment means, in any kind of knowledge, a preoccupation and an occupation at the same time. All those critics and reflections intended to deepen in this issue, critics that go beyond simple emergent solutions and try to find the core of these alterations in a cultural and ideological point of view, as well as working together with other disciplines, but not becoming part of it, instead, making it possible to articulate each of them in order to have more general and purposive approaches regarding to environmental alteration, that is what will be called “environmental philosophy”. An environmental philosophy has two principal functions: on one hand, to look for that ecological principle that connects biodiversity, which in fact means to propose life as the center of nature; on the other hand, to defy humanawareness critically in that specific tendency of interpreting the world as an anthropocentric one, in other words, that place in which human beings, just because of their rationality, have the power to instrumentalize their activities taking advantage of the natural resources and also to interfere in other species’ life processes. This way, a theorization about the interactions between living beings themselves and with the environment is a susceptible activity to be related to other branches of knowledge, and philosophy is not the exception. Ecology, as a scientific study, has as a matter of study the coexistence between living beings and their environment. Ecology produces the theoretical foundations needed to solve alterations and emergencies regarding to that environment regularity. In fact, an environmental philosophy deals in one way with the theoretic content of ecology, and in another way with the practical application of those theories, once the issue is addressed, mostly by the technique or practice. Therefore, an environmental philosophy has to do with a deep and a superficial ecology, one that tries to preserve and another that tries exploit nature, contributing this way to the search of the common principle between these two positions and biodiversity.
