[REPORTED PAPER] CONSIDERATIONS ON RELIGION ACCORDING TO ECOSOPHY

Abstract

The term Ecosophy evokes the need to think a new relationship between man and the environment from a post-Cartesian paradigm, since under the aegis of Cartesianism a form of domination over nature was subscribed to where the latter presents itself as a “handwoman” of man. This expression goes back to the thought of the Norwegian environmentalist Arne Naess, founder of the movement known as Deep Ecology, which, among other characteristics, establishes that the problem of ecology is beyond a single field of studies, involving the collective effort of different areas, since it is a theme of responsibility of all. Several thinkers can be included in the development of that concept, going from Rousseau to Félix Guattari, to sociologists such as Michel Maffesoli and physicists such as Fritjof Capra. We understand, based on the work of some of its main theorists, that Ecosophy encompasses a metaphysical dimension that is beyond the consensual forms of combating environmental imbalance, which are instrumentalized through agreements and goals established through political institutions, but which promotes itself as a worldview that has as its principle to transform human consciousness so that it is in accordance with the terms of a new conviviality with oneself and with nature. From this emerge two tasks to be fully consolidated: the recognition of the interdependence of living beings among themselves, in relation to the environment and nature taken as the common origin of all. This last point expresses a conflict with the spiritual tradition of the West of Judeo-Christian matrix.