A Horizon for Ecological Practice
摘要
In the previous pages, I argued that switching from a vision of conflict of interests to one of hybridity should be grounded in an ontology that understands life as oriented toward a form of flourishing. Without such a fundamental conception, it seems almost impossible to justify a political call for ecological care at the practical level. These more philosophical considerations on the ontological groundings of ecological politics, despite their abstract formulation, do not seem to be far from the implicit assumptions of situated agents in different contexts while caring for others, humans and nonhumans: a certain sense of familiarity, of proximity, of being living beings among other living beings, which would provide motivations that do not respond to the narrow and “puristic” categories of separated spheres of interest.