kūpa 🇻🇪in many Indigenous cultures, there is no precise word for "nature", because you can't separate what was never divided; at least in the way modernity did. western modernity drew a hard line: humans on one side, all the rest on the other. one has reason the other doesn't. one has rights, the other has value. one is subject, the other object. this split made colonialism, industrialism and ecological destruction thinkable.
Ooze 𓁟@kupaye z It was there well before western modernity. It was created by the Christian doctrine that man has dominion over the world.
Michael Halila 🏳️⚧️@mhalila @Ooze I think the western concept of nature is a surprisingly recent one. It was assembled, piece by piece, over roughly two thousand years (the greek phusis, the roman silva, judaist anthropocentrism, etc), but it didn't reach its current form until about two centuries ago. the Scientific Revolution assembled the parts, to think a mechanical order, fully governed by law, in which the whole is just the sum of its parts. if anything, God was demoted to an abstract first mover