Ética e educação ambiental: considerações filosóficas

Abstract

We live in an era where everything happens so fast. The damage caused to the environment is a result of many interventions caused by humans in the process associated with unbridled capitalism and consumption, pollution and degradation automatically generating unprecedented. However, we could make the following questions: What can we do in the sphere rational to change the reality of the environmental crisis which we live? You can change through education? Of ethics? What would be the beginning of an environmental ethic? Faced with this impending environmental disaster, what can be done to reduce or minimize their effects? These are some issues that enables respond and analyze during the project. The goal of rethinking the relationship between men and nature in deep integration with the historical process, it is necessary not to lose the meaning of existence, the sense of being a human being. Structuring a new concept of the world, through changes of action and thought requires an understanding of global problems, and act in a local problems. The environmental crisis resulting from this relationship is a crisis which leads them to seek reasons for deep reflection and produce new forms and lifestyles that can educate for a future world of living beings. The issues raised in this project that need a philosophical approach reflexive, in addition to the use of good theoretical benchmarks, which will support the theoretical basis for the research, from which, discussing the assumptions that will be part of the body required for theoretical discussion surrounding the search.