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Abstract: a1_The article considers questions of the cultural and political context of the philosophical elaboration of the ethics of ecology. Its starting point is the thesis of the growth of man’s dual dependence in the cultural (civilisation) and biological-natural senses. The ecological crisis today, however, appears to be a consequence of the culturally reproductive relationship of society and man to nature, as domination based on the mutual dependence of the instrumentalisation of man and nature. Seen in this light, the modern attempts to formulate the ethics of ecology are creating an alternative model of the technical-power relation with nature. This search is linked with questions of the understanding, evaluation and behaviour which cannot be separated from the socio-cultural and political contests. If ecological ethics do not wish to renounce their participation in the creation of decision and to isolate themselves from their share in the choice of alternatives, they cannot therefore abstract from the concept of man as a social actor in the context of power relationships. In the analysis of modern domination, this refers to the influence of a one-sided epistemological-manipulative model of the collective social manipulation of nature, based on the artificial reconstruction of the image of nature, with the projection of a cultural image of social organisation and the alienation of the reciprocal relationship of man, society, culture and nature. Such a cultural idea and social model of behaviour inhibits the existence of a society of ideally equal evaluation of partners, which is one of the requirements of ecological ethics. Thus arises the question of the possibility of cultural changes as the context for retabling the Schweizerist idea of the reference for life to life as an ethical act. |
