Abstract
In modern occidental societies (and in those who are getting occidentalized) the rational economical reductionist paradigm –that tendency of calculating anything in order to give it intelligibility, according to the principle that any event has scientific interest only when it can be quantified– which lays at the methodological basis of pure sciences, has become the key of reading in the study of the same living matter. Additionally, as denounced by social sciences, instrumental rationalism has even shifted to the point of defining social relationships. This fact has devastating effects on social systems and on ecosystems. In this article we will take into account some thesis of intellectuals that became aware of the ecological and social unsustainability of such paradigm. The “state of mind” could be defined, as well, as the group of feelings of emotional states, more or less conscious but spontaneous, that spring up from the deepest dimension of the individual; meanwhile, we can define the “state of consciousness” as the moment when an individual (or a community) becomes aware of the causes, or the a priori conditions, which are on the basis of such state of mind and puts into practice some recommendations, proposals and strategies with the intention of breaking, or keeping, such conditions. Hence, in the article some of those recommendations and proposals aimed at getting out of the current systemic crisis state are suggested. These spring up from a holistic view of the human being which starts from its ontological dimension, that is to say that dimension which refers to the human being essence considering his/her interrelational nature, his/her creative ability, the sense of his/her own existence and his/her relationship with the environment.
In modern occidental societies (and in those who are getting occidentalized) the rational economical reductionist paradigm –that tendency of calculating anything in order to give it intelligibility, according to the principle that any event has scientific interest only when it can be quantified– which lays at the methodological basis of pure sciences, has become the key of reading in the study of the same living matter. Additionally, as denounced by social sciences, instrumental rationalism has even shifted to the point of defining social relationships. This fact has devastating effects on social systems and on ecosystems. In this article we will take into account some thesis of intellectuals that became aware of the ecological and social unsustainability of such paradigm. The “state of mind” could be defined, as well, as the group of feelings of emotional states, more or less conscious but spontaneous, that spring up from the deepest dimension of the individual; meanwhile, we can define the “state of consciousness” as the moment when an individual (or a community) becomes aware of the causes, or the a priori conditions, which are on the basis of such state of mind and puts into practice some recommendations, proposals and strategies with the intention of breaking, or keeping, such conditions. Hence, in the article some of those recommendations and proposals aimed at getting out of the current systemic crisis state are suggested. These spring up from a holistic view of the human being which starts from its ontological dimension, that is to say that dimension which refers to the human being essence considering his/her interrelational nature, his/her creative ability, the sense of his/her own existence and his/her relationship with the environment.