Etica, ambiente ed ecosofia. Una lettura simbolica

The challenges of the third millennium we need to deal with, on the one hand push man to force technologically the frontiers of bios and, on the other, seem to keep him anchored to moral dilemmas of ancient philosophical and epistemological roots. Consequently they advance the need to re-articulate a process that involves the sphere of values but also the relations between life, environment and human species, and that Morin calls “ring of ethical and cosmic reliance” between man and community, and between man and nature. It is therefore necessary to ask ourselves how these rings of reliance can be translated into (new?) languages of justice and policies of custody and taking care of life in all its dimensions, to revitalize a collective imagination that should be self-legislator and guardian of cultural and environmental heritage, and is able to confer feelings of belonging and at the same time of openness to all other communities in the direction of a universal common good. In this regard, the choice of a symbolic reading, which gives the possibility of understanding the profound grammar of spaces and times, and therefore of territories and places as seats of material and immaterial goods, could offer the opportunity to recover dried up meanings and to identify reasons and values of com monality, subtracting them from the weakening and nullification operated by artificial and procedural logics, affecting bio-anthropic relations and on forms of social organization.