Abstract

MONFRINOTTI LESCURA, Vanessa Ivana. The Ontological Background of Western Modernity: A Critical Review of Nature/Culture Dualism. En-clav. pen [online]. 2021, vol.15, n.30, e422.  Epub Sep 06, 2021. ISSN 2594-1100.  https://doi.org/10.46530/ecdp.v0i30.422.

In this paper, a conceptual review is made around the conformation of nature/culture dualism, in their insertion on dualist ontology of the western modernity. In the first place, the roots of this binomial refer to the 17th century scenario, philosophically uttered by René Descartes in the separation between res cogitans/res extensa. This process does not end there, so, in this text, we realize the way in which such dualism required complex mechanisms (epistemic, philosophical, cultural, historical, political, etc.) that crystallized the conformation of two ontologically autonomous spheres, on one hand, the socio-cultural and, on the other, the natural. The purpose of this analysis is to give an account of the ontological bases that led us to a present immersed in a crisis of civilization, thus announced by different epistemic positions and social movements.

Keywords : Dualistic ontology; modernity; nature/culture; political ontology; naturalism.

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