Fr. Albert Alejo, S.J.
Faced with the grave ecological crisis as manifested in disasters, pollution, alienation, and resource-based conflicts, there is an urgent need for a rethinking of how humans must relate to the beauty and the brute force of the natural world. This rethinking opens up a new role for doing philosophy, one that involves a profound critique of the globalized technocratic paradigm, a moral engagement with the ideas of environmental advocates, as well as an invitation to an aesthetics of serene attentiveness to reality that calls for a corresponding ethics of simple lifestyle (Laudato Si’).
