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Ubuntu: o restauro da relação entre os seres humanos e a natureza como uma possibilidade de repensar os riscos globais
Utopias are constitutive of human nature as a dialectical field in relation to the past, present and future. Thus, human beings of all times, in order to face both natural and social ecosystem relations, had to build utopias. Ubuntu is a bantu people's utopia. Its specificity lies in the fact that, born from the concrete experiences of the Bantu of the past, it remains open to the present and the future, based on the relational ontology expressed in the sentence I am, because we are. It is in this spirit that, despite being built in the past, ubuntu can constitute a perspective for rethinking about the global risks arising from the Anthropocene, characterized by the intensive interference of homo economicus in nature and in the lives of human beings. Hence, the global risks arising both from this interference and from the problems between human beings are, in our view, questions of justice resulting both from global apartheid, in the relationship between rich and poor, and from the crisis in the relationship between human beings and nature. Thus, in addition to the technical solutions widely defended, we propose ubuntu as a possibility to restore the relationship between human beings and these with nature.
Ubuntu: o restauro da relação entre os seres humanos e a natureza como uma possibilidade de repensar os riscos globais
Utopias are constitutive of human nature as a dialectical field in relation to the past, present and future. Thus, human beings of all times, in order to face both natural and social ecosystem relations, had to build utopias. Ubuntu is a bantu people's utopia. Its specificity lies in the fact that, born from the concrete experiences of the Bantu of the past, it remains open to the present and the future, based on the relational ontology expressed in the sentence I am, because we are. It is in this spirit that, despite being built in the past, ubuntu can constitute a perspective for rethinking about the global risks arising from the Anthropocene, characterized by the intensive interference of homo economicus in nature and in the lives of human beings. Hence, the global risks arising both from this interference and from the problems between human beings are, in our view, questions of justice resulting both from global apartheid, in the relationship between rich and poor, and from the crisis in the relationship between human beings and nature. Thus, in addition to the technical solutions widely defended, we propose ubuntu as a possibility to restore the relationship between human beings and these with nature.
Ubuntu: o restauro da relação entre os seres humanos e a natureza como uma possibilidade de repensar os riscos globais
Felizardo Antonio Pedro (author)
2022
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ubuntu , ser humano , justiça , riscos , natureza , Environmental sciences , GE1-350
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