(PÓS-)INDIVIDUALISMO E MEIO-AMBIENTE: perspectivas de um olhar responsável para o futuro

Abstract

Titled “(Post-) Individualism and the Environment: perspectives on a responsible future world-view”, the proposal for this thesis is to discuss the ethics behind problems regarding the environmental challenges in a morally individualistic world. Philosophical work with these characteristics is justified by the potential ethical contributions in the face of an imminent global environmental crisis that could cause irreversible damage to nature, serious aggravation of social problems, and severely reduce the quality of life of future generations. With this scope, the problematic thus presented can be translated into two central questions: How does a morally individualistic scenario impact our ethical-environmental responsibility? Is it possible to think about philosophical work that drives the overcoming of the problems portrayed on this framework? In order to reach its scope, the present work uses as a main reference, the theory of Ethical Responsibility from Hans Jonas, especially as it is presented on his work, The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. The philosophical methodologies hereby employed were also developed by the same author, highlighting research principles about future ethics. Finally, after a brief presentation of the main elements of the present environmental problem, and an analysis about contemporary individualism, this thesis supports, as a contribution to coping with this dire adversity, the necessity of a moral discourse that overtakes individualism, a post-individualist discourse, and the rise of central ethical questions relevant to the future.