Verso un'abitanza sostenibile

Abstract

The current enquiry seeks to provide an anwer to the urgent demands to find critical horizons in order to develop reflections regarding the conditions which outline authentically human ways to stay in the world.
Ways and forms, as well as reasons and objectives that educate to inhabit the Earth and to take care of it, represent emblematic questions inherent to current civil debates. Within the increasingly vulnerable and interdependent social and economical context, which distinguishes itself particularly by precariousness and by several kinds of risk, a sustainable perspective inevitably crosses local and global dimensions, the individual and the community, as well as present and future generations. Through the various ways of inhabiting, the intrinsically relational nature of human beings manifests itself, between the nearby and the distant, estrangement and coexistence, taking care and fear, authonomy and vulnerability, as well as between dependence and responsability. Therefore, the concept of inhabiting is pervaded by the experience of otherness; this does not only means staying together – but also being together. The human relational nature becomes a fundamental anthropological condition, which enacts itself through the ways of being open, not only to the otherness of other human beings, but also to the otherness of the world.