Regnum hominis: Prolegómenos para una antropología filosófica de la crisis ambiental

Classical philosophy, that of the Greeks to be more precise, was born with a simple and essential question: what about man? The man on whom they poured their concerns, however, was not the one who was about to fall into the unfathomable vertigo of consciousness, but the one who longed to find his place in the world.
The cosmological concerns of the first Hellenic thinkers paved the way for the adventure of abstract thought to begin its embryonic journey, and for this reflection to give rise to a science of rational behavior (ethics) understood as the human being's way of relating to his own environment.
Today, faced with the abyss of the planetary ecological crisis, we can affirm that the concerns of our ancient ancestors have gained new force; and alongside the modern tradition, forms of understanding the world that had previously been marginalized have appeared, both in discourse and in image and action.
The encounter between these "alternative" ecologies and those that emerge from the critical path of modern thought is offering the possibility, due to its ecumenical scope, of building, rather than a finished concept of the human, a historical practice of humanity.