Today, the environment has become the focus of human attention for various reasons. People in general or at least part of human society in different geographies of the world are trying to prevent all the destruction and pollution of the environment. We firstly must take a position on how this happened; now humans are addicted to their own hands and a cause of a big threat to the planet.
In fact, the environment has reached this stage; perhaps it may belong to the human psychological desire that psychologists and thinkers such as Eric Formi (1900-1980) from German call the “anatomy of human destruction”. Of course, I am using it metaphorically here and I am not discussing the complex and delicate reasons for a person’s mental desire to act against himself and his normal life, but according to the acknowledgment and discovery of most psychologists of the twentieth century there is an unconscious that leads to the brink of collapse. Obviously, preventing this dark desire is measured by the waves of consciousness and desire, but has man achieved any victory in the battle between consciousness and unconsciousness? In fact, this is one of the most important questions of human life and existence that thinkers and anthropologists are still asking about.
To understand this question, it is better to know the experience of man’s relationship with the universe and the earth, or in other words, nature. In a poem entitled “Man and Earth”, the great Persian poet Ahmadi Shamloo composes a dialogue between man and the earth and conveys a world of nature’s complaints from the language of the earth to the ignorant, cruel and nature-eating man. This is understandable to some current dominant discourses, such as the Greens, environmentalists, and the new left, which have always (even the classical left) viewed human interference in nature as a form of oppression, occupation, and ultimately crime.
First of all, we must know that nature does not have an absolute meaning, but it also has a clear and tangible meaning. This means that when we say nature from a biological and naturalistic point of view, we are not just talking. Rather, from the point of view of physics, chemistry, astronomy, etc., this nature is a set of physical and natural laws, a set of complex unknown phenomena inside and outside the Earth and the entire universe. In ancient Greek philosophy, physics was an integral part of philosophy, equivalent to natural subjects, and Aristotle’s Nature is a prime example of ancient philosophical texts that prove this fact. From that time until the beginning of modern philosophy by Rene Descartes (1596-1650), nature has been an integral part of human thought, dreams and aspirations. This is due to the Greek basis of the relationship between nature and the concept of truth.
