Ética y medio ambiente. La descomposición y recomposición de la razón práctica

Abstract

Nowadays, everybody is worried about an in questionable fact, that is, the environmental deterioration of our planet Earth. In addition, many people are able to recognize that human action has a lot to do with that deterioration. Therefore, the following question seems unavoidable: are human beings responsible for the ecological crisis? If the answer to the question is affirmative, then, we would have to face a very important problem. In the past, philosophy built different models of practical rationality according to the problems which mankind had to face at each moment of their history. So, after multiple attempts to reconstruct «Practical rationality», it seems relevant to suggest a reconstruction of ethics in the present. This reconstruction should give priority to the case of the moral dimension of human action on nature. This essays addresses that case.