Ekologia i ekologizm a filozofia ekologii

Abstract

The problems of ecology became gradually the center of many discussions on economy as well as on social and political tensions. But the criteria in this area are far from being clear. They depend strongly on the basic concept of human being. What frequently prevails now is the so called “deep ecology”, characterized by a fundamental reductionism in treating humanity: a human being is thus reduced to a mere element in the chain of nature. What’s more, the responsibility for the XX-century degradation of the natural environment is ascribed to the realistic anthropology (i.e. anthropocentrism). Such attempts to reduce the human being to the level of mere nature or – on the other side – attempts to humanize animals, are dangerous to the human race. The basis for effective ecology can be only one: the paradigm of the human priority over the nature as seen in the realistic analysis of the human being understood as a moral entity.