Ohrožená kultura - Od evoluční ontologie k ekologické politice – Šmajs Josef (2011)

The author presents a new concept of evolutionary ontology, whose procedural understanding of being allows us to comprehend what is happening in the world today. Against the backdrop of the slow natural evolution of life, it reveals the rapid, nature-damaging evolution of culture. It examines the problem of the emergence of anti-natural cultural order from the original natural order. It finds that in a naturally ordered world, a new type of order cannot arise other than by breaking natural structures. Therefore, the essence of the ecological crisis is not the contradiction between man and nature, as it may seem to a superficial view, but rather the conflict between culture and the Earth, a temporary inability of the biosphere to extinguish the fire that today's technological civilization is burning it with. If in an unweakened biosphere traditional politics could deal with the protection of territory, the safety and property of citizens, and could overlook local devastation of nature, then the emerging ecological politics must not allow further devastation of the Earth. However, no special science can diagnose its injured ecosystem without philosophy, and thus philosophical ontology gains a new practical meaning. It abandons the narrow framework of individual understanding of the world and through reflections on the conflict between culture and nature becomes one of the prerequisites for the reality of global ecology...