The Partnership Between Man and Earth

Abstract

The article substantiates the turn to the earth-centric paradigm of man's attitude towards nature as the partnership between Man and Earth, and the changes of conceptual apparatus for studying the ManNature inter-conjugation and co-evolution. It reveals the limits of concepts of "anthropocentrism", "anthropocosmocentrism", "environment", "man is the measure of all things", "nature is the home of man", "self-value of nature". It is proposed to use P.A.Kropotkin’s theory of mutual aid, theories of bioregionalism, organicism, living logic, to introduce the concepts of "planet Earth ecosophy", "Earth rights", "bioregion", "Indigenous Methodology world design" as the basis for the paradigm of the partnership between Man and Earth.