Naslov
Anthropocentrism, capitalism, and the concept of freedom

Autori
Knorr, Lidija

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

ISBN
978-953-55962-6-4

Skup
Summer school "Bioethics in context VI - Human Beings - Nonhuman Beings - Nature"

Mjesto i datum
Trogir, Hrvatska, 30.06.2019. - 07.07.2019

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Ključne riječi
anthropocentrism, capitalism, concept of freedom, corporation

Sažetak
In this paper, I will consider the human relationship towards nature un-der the presuppositions of anthropocentrism and capitalism which co-create this relationship in current social and political context. Special attention will be paid to the problem of freedom in Western society. There is no doubt that both anthropocentrism and capitalism, significantly characterised by the individualistic point of view, enabled the new level of freedom for the indi-vidual. With that new level of freedom, the individual achieved the ability to act freely and take responsibility for their actions as individual, not collective actions. However, when we talk about freedom in Western society, we often refer to the freedom of the market, and less to the freedom of the individual, which evinces as “having the possibility for x”, and not as “freedom from something” or as “freedom for something”. With the development of capital-ism, a corporation becomes the central entity, and has more rights and greater freedom than the individual, although responsibility is still formally attrib-uted to the individual. Ecological problems caused by the corporate effect of the exploitation of nature are also again assigned to the individual, so that the individual should take responsibility for the environmental crisis, instead of the corporations. If we have, on the one hand, anthropocentrism in which the individual has a central role, and, on the other hand, capitalism in which, ac-tually, the central role is given to corporations, the question is what is the place and status of nature in such context, and how does it relate to the concept of Panel VIIFriday, July 5, 20192:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.The time allocated for each presentation:15 minutes and 10 minutes for discussion 64human freedom in Western society? Therefore, I would like to ask: should we continue to understand the concept of freedom in a traditional manner or should we re-conceptualise the concept of freedom for the protection of life, nature and cosmos in general? Should we begin to understand the concept of freedom from the biocentric, ecocentric, and cosmocentric point of view, and not from the anthropocentric point of view

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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