This study was carried out under the theme of 'Ethical and practical model research for redefining the relationship between human, nature and technology and establishment a local ecological community'.
This study reflects on the climate crisis caused ...
This study was carried out under the theme of 'Ethical and practical model research for redefining the relationship between human, nature and technology and establishment a local ecological community'.
This study reflects on the climate crisis caused by anthropocentric thinking, reestablishes the concept of human, nature, and technology as a way to overcome it, and examines the possibility of an ethical and practical model of the local ecological community based on this. Humans were the center of the world, nature was understood from the human point of view, and technology was considered a very useful tool in human relationships with nature. As a result, a global problem called the climate crisis has occurred, and we reaffirm this phenomenon with the emergence of the concept of ‘Anthropocene’. The Anthropocene is a geological concept that refers to a crisis period such as the present one caused by humans. It cannot be denied that even what is done with the intention of humans protecting nature is still anthropocentric because it protects nature from the perspective of humans alone. Just as there is a human point of view, there is also a non-human point of view. Therefore, although humans are responsible for the Anthropocene, the solution to this problem must be sought from the perspective of non-human beings. The shape of a sustainable local ecological community, which is the purpose of this study, aims at the harmony between humans and non-humans.
Humans become relational realities when they understand that they exist in relation to non-human beings. In other words, it is the way the body exists. This allows us to start from a unique point of view, that is, that there are various points of view. This study relied on Merleau-Ponty's body (corps) phenomenology and chair ontology as a theoretical basis for this. For Merleau-Ponty, the body is a unique body, and the body is an objectified and generalized body, in other words, a body recovered from a standardized body. The body refers not only to the human body, but also to the body of nature. The diversity and individuality of the body is made possible by the ontological horizon of flesh. In addition, Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology not only breaks down the boundaries between humans and nature, humans and non-humans, and subjects and objects, but also brings back beings who have stayed as objects or others to the place of the subject through the concept of intersubjectivity. Only at this time can we build a local ecological community as an ethical and practical model. In particular, it is very important to look at the possibility of co-evolution between nature and humans.
Each proper body is a relational reality. The intertwining of these bodies opens the world or the field of perception. Technology here is not what one body needs to use another body, but what makes the relationship between bodies possible. At this time, the bodies do not have any hierarchical order. Thus, it was seen that the relationship between bodies is formed as a network as an ecological field. The regional ecological community, which is the goal of the study, is sustainable only for the basis of the network as an ecological field.