Philosophy of nature and culture and its role in shaping Humankind’s attitude to nature By Aldona Pobojewska

https://www.academia.edu/113586024/Philosophy_of_nature_and_culture_and_its_role_in_shaping_Humankind_s_attitude_to_nature?nav_from=19d83254-dd8a-4670-9b96-11a939af351f We live in an era of crises. One of them, the ecological crisis, arose from the fact that the human race plunders nature, destroying, among other things, the Earth’s biodiversity. In my paper I will show that the situation is rooted in a specific worldview. Moreover, I will interrogate the question of how we can deal with the problem. Humankind’s attitude to themselves and to the world (including nature) is based on beliefs and values which make up an unquestioned prejudgment. Individuals absorb it in the process of socialization, as they assimilate the widely understood traditions of the social groups to which they belong. In the Western tradition in particular, our understanding of humanity’s situation in the world and its relation to nature, which we have had since modernity, found its clearest articulation in the views of René Descartes (1596–1650). I will begin by discussing the main characteristics of this position most pertinent to the main problem identified in the title. T...