Monotheistic Control and the Protection of Land. Paths in the Search for World and Earth Sacredness from a Philosophical Perspective

Based on the narration of the Pachacuti Indian, this paper studies the perspective and the way of relating to the environment resulting from the failed/successful encounter with western epistemology. Furthermore, it analyses the way in which an objectifying reasoning which places the subject as the owner and possessor of the world is constructed in three western foundational texts, the Enuma Elish, the Book of Genesis and the Timaeus. Lastly, it studies the Kuschian perspective of the 'logic of negation' which, without rejecting western epistemology, reviews it and complements in through a rationality that is not only based on positivity-objectivity but on the symbolic-celebrative relationship, all of which matches the new forms of knowledge, no longer sustained by a rationality of possession, postulated by ecofeminist approaches.