Autonomy as the self-realisation of an environmental identity

IF 2.2 2区 哲学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Esteban Arcos
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This article addresses the question raised by the Anthropocene of rethinking the concept of autonomy which, in the conditions of the new geological epoch, is subject to a crisis of legitimation. It explores the ‘strong hypothesis’ according to which nature is a necessary condition of our qualitative experience of the world and a constitutive relation of autonomy defined as the self-realisation of individual identity. With this aim in mind, the article attempts to rethink the concept of recognition in order to conceive a recognising attitude of nature in the form of love of nature as a form of adequate recognition. Rethinking recognition can serve as foundation of an ‘objective’ theory of autonomy, that is, a theory that explains how nature can be defined as a condition and constitutive relation of autonomy. The article, therefore, proposes to reformulate the concept of autonomy as the self-realisation of an ecological or environmental identity in the form of the self-realisation of an ecological ethos, that is, an attitude of respect and care for nature. This enquiry, ultimately, is a contribution to the task of rethinking the basis of our conceptions of autonomy and freedom in the Anthropocene, so that the idea of autonomy can legitimately constitute the central value of the social transformation that is needed to face the ecological crisis.
自主是环境特性的自我实现
本文探讨了 "人类世 "提出的重新思考 "自主性 "概念的问题,在新的地质时代条件下,"自主性 "概念面临着合法性危机。文章探讨了 "强假设",根据这一假设,自然是我们对世界的定性体验的必要条件,也是被定义为个人身份自我实现的自主性的构成关系。基于这一目的,文章试图重新思考 "认可 "的概念,以便将以热爱自然为形式的对自然的认可态度视为一种充分认可的形式。对承认的反思可以作为自主性 "客观 "理论的基础,即解释如何将自然定义为自主性的条件和构成关系的理论。因此,文章建议将自主性概念重新表述为生态或环境身份的自我实现,其形式是生态伦理的自我实现,即一种尊重和关爱自然的态度。这一探究最终将有助于我们重新思考人类世中自主和自由概念的基础,从而使自主理念能够合法地构成社会转型的核心价值,而社会转型正是应对生态危机所必需的。
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4.60
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36.40%
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期刊介绍: Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, ecology and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future environment of human beings and other species. In doing so we aim to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.
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