THE ONTOLOGICAL BASIS OF AN ECOLOGICAL ETHICS IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE OBJECT- ORIENTED ONTOLOGY

A fundamental postulate of ecological ethics is care, which extends beyond me, beyond us, beyond what is human. A care, therefore, that goes beyond the self and that is not anthropocentric, nor speciesist, but attends to otherness, to the other, to what is strange and what is strange to us. An ecological ethic must, therefore, (a) be critical of anthropocentrism and (b) recognize the difference / strangeness of objects. To fulfill both conditions, it is necessary to start from a Flat Ontology and that recognizes the existence of objects that are strange to the extent that they never fully appear (not even before themselves) and that are always in withdrawal, giving themselves but remaining partially hidden.