Abstract

Within today’s debate on the relationship between economics and ecology we often resort to the ancient models and ‘world ideas’ generated within Asian religious traditions. Works and authors from the past become part of the contemporary disputes among stakeholders of the economic systems and militants of the various sectors of contemporary environmentalism. In this work I intend to show myopia, risks and dangers underlying certain ways of dividing, justifying and governing the relationships that the human animal has with the ecosystem of which it is a part.

Highlights

  • Within today's debate on the relationship between economics and ecology we often resort to the ancient models

  • governing the relationships that the human animal has with the ecosystem

  • Senz’altro risente del bisogno – tutto economico – di dover subordinare l’operato del singolo vivente al più ampio disegno d’ordinamento del mondo, come peraltro risulta dal vincolo che il testo stabilisce fra l’operare dell’intero ecosistema e l’agire umano, i cui ‘atti’ (karman) non sono veramente compiuti dall’agente, bensì dalla ‘natura’ (prakṛti) e dai suoi ‘costituenti’ (guṇa [anche ‘fune’, ‘corda’]).25 In questo modo, ossia obbedendo al ruolo assegnatogli dall’ordinamento ecologico che partecipa della ‘natura più alta’, il vivente si allinea al modo più economico di procedere del reale, contribuendo utilmente allo stesso e ottenendo così la più alta forma di retribuzione, ossia la ‘liberazione’ (mokṣa) (Bhagavadgītā, 18.66).26

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Summary

Introduction

Within today’s debate on the relationship between economics and ecology we often resort to the ancient models and ‘world ideas’ generated within Asian religious traditions.

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