Ang Persona ng Kalikasan

Abstract

This essay traces the root of our present environmental crisis in the modern turn of Western humanity and in it's imposition of its reductionist paradigms for engaging what come to presence on the global community It articulates the challenge for humanity to rediscover nature as a presencing that invites the human being to let nature presence as aprecensing other. It inquires into the  necessity and possibility of being presented to. It also poses the possibility that this presencing signifies the presencing of a  transcendent other who is the persohood of nature. Only in recognizing nature as the presencing of a personal other can we  recover the respect ecological dwelling calls for.