Introductory notes: ethical-philosophy foundations of the human being-nature relationship

Abstract

This theoretical investigation is a brief reflection on the theories and fundamentals of the rights of Nature, which have become a new decolonial ethical-normative-environmental paradigm facing the ecological crisis arising from the current model of exploitation of natural resources for the production and reproduction of capitalism in the modern-colonial world-system. In conducting the research, we adopted a critical-methodological line and used the methodology of bibliographic review in order to present a theoretical observation about the fundamentals of the rights of Nature. The work was divided into four sections, presenting from anthropocentric theoretical perspectives to theories on environmental ethics, in an attempt to contribute to the debate about the current ecological and paradigmatic crisis.