ECO-SOLIDARITYAND THE PHENOMENOLOGY OFOTHERNESS OF LIVING

Abstract

The paper recognised that the possibility of integral humanism is on concern to heal the world of the dehumanising conditions on the environment as a result of wrong applications and employment of human actions and choices. The paper recognised the underlining problem against the realization of sustainable and integral development is mainly centred on the causes of environmental pollution and degradation. These causes are related with the human actions and choices that undermine the values of the human person as the subject of lived-experiences. Hence, the paper projects the indispensable placement of the applications of eco-solidarity as a principle or theory of development that it based on the social, moral and economic responsibilities to re-think the fundamental signicance of the human person. The concerns are based on the possibilities of realising sound and authentic civilization that should be hinged on the phenomenology of the Otherness of Living. Such primacy of these concerns for eco-solidarity is inalienable, and on which the paper posited that the environment can be sustained on the values of the Otherness of Living. This is on the collective interrelatedness of the human person and the environment in ghting the Culture of War and the diplomatically striving for the Culture of Peace. It is where the human person is neither a thing nor an object to be used, but primarily a responsible subject endowed in “Charity in truth” and oriented towards the sustainability of the inherent and intrinsic values of environment, especially as “our common home.” This paper, adopting the phenomenological method for the analysis of the reasonableness of the human person as a subject of lived-experience, concluded that it is in valuing the lives of others, and this necessary project the operational values of eco-solidarity hinged on the values of human relationship, through which, the environment is properly and adequately sustained and then indispensably in achieving integral humanism.