The Ecological Imperative: From the Relationship of Domination to Coexistence.

The ecological problem has a global dimension. In a radically interconnected world, the ecological issue is closely related to state sovereignty and inequality. Humanity is no longer menaced by an untamed nature, and nowadays danger comes from the same power achieved to dominate nature. This paper reflects on the relationship between the Anthropocene and a specific anthropological view of human beings. The focus is the concept of the Other, assumed in an ontological sense. The ethical issues raised by the ecological crisis require an approach that examines how human beings relate to each other and, consequently, to other living beings. Following a weak adhesion to the D.E. approach, a critique of the philosophical and anthropological assumptions underlying the principle of domination is proposed. The survival of humanity is an object to human responsibility. The aim is to radically criticise the dualistic and rationalistic view of Cartesian origin in which the subject dominates the object for its own purposes. Therefore, the possibility of a transition from a vision that conceives man as subject and nature as object to a perspective in which man and nature are intrinsically interconnected by a relationship of relationality is addressed.