OLD AGE AND THE NATURE

Abstract

Abstract Recent formulations to re-cognize the environmental and moral concerns have all fallen short in their assessment and impact. This work — unlike customary attempts to view nature, morality, and science in isolation — is an attempt in historical analysis to unearth the origins of the moral, existential, and the natural problems confronting modern societies. It will be argued that what 17 we combat today (environmental problems, philistinism, nihilism, anguish, dispossession) is not an offshoot or irrationality of the contemporary rational and anthropocentric existence, but something that is born out of it and one that sustains it. The need of the time, therefore, is to transcend capitalism in both its modern and postmodern variants through a force potent enough to address all dilemmas substantively: Islam.Keywords: sign, Machiavelli, Hegel, truth, nature, inquisition, Nietzsche, freedom, labor