Imaging a Transition from an Instrumental Intentionality to a Loving One in the Relationship with Earth and Cosmos: The Role of the Eco-phenomenology
摘要
The essay outlines above all the metaphysical character of the Phenomenology of Life elaborated by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and it hints at a post-post-metaphysics, which should not be separated from the world-of-life. Then it sets the difference between unconditional being and conditional being, so between what is already the fullness of being and what is on the way of its fullness. Pursuing the positivity of being claims care regarding not only the human being, but also the environment in which humans are situated, in a relationship that tends to build the harmony with Earth and Cosmos. About that, the stress is put on the commitment of the Phenomenology of Life as Eco-phenomenology in realizing a theoretical purification of reason, a strong effort of imaging and an ethical turn. Coherently, it highlights a necessary overcoming of self-referential anthropocentrism and an opportune distancing from the logic of the assimilation of non-human nature, which reduces nature to a simple stool for the human. At the end, it affirms that a new relationship to nature needs also an anthropological change, integrating the ability to work with the ability to act and to contemplate. All that can offer the context of a loving intentionality to nature and of an impactful imaginatio creatrix.