contributes to the best development and to the happiness of our grand "human House",  

     and this in the continuation of its original historical source (the Ionian philosophic school, initiated by Thales and -even more- by Anaximander, then by their heirs, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Democritus, Leucippus, Pythagoras, Epicurus, Aristotle, etc, relayed by many others in the course of the centuries) where the natural world, the human fact, and the sciences, were conceived as a globally complementary and interdependent whole, useful for the permanent human progress. Even further, this source had Indo-European origins, Vedic, typical of the important socio-cultural transition of the Neolithic.

    In the modern time, after the western classical Humanism confined itself in vain to search the place and the best possible quality of the human Being, Eco-humanism has continued to be the philosophy, the science, and the politics, of the best possible development of the human House, that is to say of the human whole in construction in its environment of life, societal and natural. What includes and associates the concepts of human Being, human family, human species, human City, Humanity, as well as the elements, organisms, and structures, with which they are in profitable symbiosis and synergy.        

    Etymologically, this concept of house (oïkos) defines an entity, protecting in a way as long-lasting as possible the common life of the members of a same family and their commensals in their living environment, by including at the same time the container (the constructed structure) and the contents (the beings and the goods) of this entity. For its part, the eco-humanist notion of human House (the common house of the grand human family) overlays such a conceptual field, at the most of its integrative capacity, and in a proactive, pragmatic, and cohesive approach.

   In these conditions, Eco-humanism is at the same time a transcultural and a metacultural current. It is transcultural because it meets the main local cultures, strengthening there with the best models of general interest, but without stopping or merging in such or such of them; and it is metacultural because it continues beyond these cultures to develop always better in the service of the human whole (the meta prefix qualifies a continuation in an upper evolutionary process). 

  So, Eco-humanism has for goal the improvement of the global composite human compound, in optimal development in its natural (external) and societal (internal and endogenous) environment. Fuelled by its deep conceptual basis, this driving current leads in this direction to build, to protect, and to project, together, the best of the human Being (the fundamental unit) and the best of the human House (the whole integrator), each part of these entities beeing not able to build itself and to prosper without the other one.

   To better succeed in all of that, modern Eco-humanism uses a principial corpus and a pragmatic organization, auto-corrected according to the evolutionary necessities.

What means in practice :

"One for all and all for one" : Eco-humanism transmits us a desire for interacting better and better, in our society and in our environment, to get our own happiness by contributing also to the protection and to the best development of our big human family, which can and which must protect us in return. All this is interdependent. 

To help us to manage well our society and our environment, Eco-humanism is an educational guide of our consciousness, to which it brings essential guiding marks, and a big interior strength. This guide results from a metacultural heritage passed on and improved generation after generation for a very long time, in a logic of pragmatic and prospective adaptation to the real world.

Finally, Eco-humanism is a tool of sociocultural improvement which, by a proactive correction and a permanent adaptation, improves the cohesion and the intelligence of Humanity, benefiting as much our evolutionary strength as our happiness, in a win-win synergy.

It results from all this that

 -   Eco-humanism is a philosophy and a science.

  It is a philosophy as far as it produces a questioning, a reflection, and an interpretation, on the human existence, development, and environment, and on the knowledges and concepts used for that.

  It is a science as far as it uses and improves all the learnt knowledges, considered as true by their relations as objective and verifiable as possible with reality.

 

 -   Eco-humanism is, furthermore, a way of civical, then political, involvement,

  which incites to act concretely and permanently in the general interest of Humanity, this guaranteeing also and by consequence the respect and the happiness of every Human being in the common societal organization.

 

 

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