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Ekologia jako nowy idealizm
Ecology as the new idealism

Author(s): Tadeusz Guz
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Metaphysics, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Human Ecology
Published by: Fundacja »Lubelska Szkoła Filozofii Chrześcijańskiej«
Keywords: God the Creator; creation; ecology; environmentalism; ecoterrorism; new idealism;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is concerned to show the essential difference between ecologists as lovers and protectors of nature and environmentalists, or ecoterrorists, as ideologues who destroy nature. Ecologists seek, know, and love God as the Creator of the cosmos, whereas environmentalists succumb to the illusions of various deities and ultimately to the folly of anti-divinity, which cuts off their reflection on man and nature from the most important transcendent reason, which is the Personal Creator of the universe. God as Creator repays righteous, good and pious man for his faithfulness and service to Him and His divine works in the form of visible creation, and punishes unrighteous, evil or unjust man for his erroneous and hypocritical approach to His divine works. Ecologists respect, support and develop man as the visible ruler of the world, to whom the eternal God entrusted the universe and delegated authority over it, while environmentalists and ecoterrorists erase man as someone higher than animals, plants and other creatures. In this context of ideological struggle, it is necessary to return to a realistic, Christian conception of man as a person and of the universe as an extraordinary ontic order, and to a metaphysical-Christian ethics that is a good antidote to the contemporary ecological crisis that is even imprinting the mark of eco-revolutionaries on certain groups.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 21-53
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Polish