Disquietude: REvolution of the Responsible Self

This essay challenges the current assumptions about Western humanism that have led to a violent, dominating human anthropology who destroys the biosphere. In this form of humanism, we lose our underlying deep connection to nature, to all others, and to ourselves, which produces an ontological constriction, and impasse. Even though there are seeds of the moral, the participating individual, and rationality, it is distorted into terror and oppression. This is a noxious modification of our inter-relational, participatory being into cultural narcissism and fear, a way of seeing that is limited to a fragile, fragmented self. Fortunately, this essay offers a critical phenomenological approach to mediating the relationship between our historically based ontologies and the underlying pre-ontological realities of our world, investigating the outlines of this method.