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Ecological crisis and the thesis of human exception, (28.04.2023) (16)

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This post asserts that the main cause of the current socio-environmental crisis is the dualistic anthropological conception that has prevailed in Western philosophy. Indeed, Western culture has accentuated the separation between man and other creatures (ontic dualism), and has also divided the human being internally, making a clear separation between soul and body (ontological dualism). 

In this sense, the encyclical Laudato si’ affirms that “there can be no ecology without an adequate anthropology” (LS118), and that we need to overcome those unhealthy dualisms, that “left a mark on certain Christian thinkers in the course of history” (LS 98).