A Novel “Planetary Man”: From the Philosophical Paradigm of Modernity to Contemporary Anthropological Mutation: The Perspective of Ernesto Balducci

摘要: Italian priest, essayist, and intellectual of the twentieth century, Ernesto Balducci identified crucial turning points new millennium by advancing original perspectives capable opening unusual future scenarios. Sensitive to emergences society (pollution, wars, ecological collapse), he retraces causes in more general “crisis modernity,” proposing a paideia model thought. He theorizes construction novel planetary horizon that presupposes not only building organizational structures, but also achieving an authentic “anthropological mutation” inverting course history. While old ethics were anthropocentric, founded on supremacy humankind over world nature, is planetary, meaning must no longer be used as parameter, instead, global which effects his or her actions extend.