title: [The Future of Ecology: Wisdom as The Speculative Centre of Environmental Ethics].
abstract: This article argues that it is necessary to go back to Potter's proposal to rediscover a concept of bioethics wider than medical ethics, and strongly connected to environmental ethics. The two disciplines share, among others, the following dimensions: the consciousness of the sin as a consequence of recent technological developments; the need for a salvation; the need for a science of survival; wisdom as a possible solution. Referring to the latter, the work of Van Rennselaer Potter (father of bioethics) and Arne Næss (father of deep ecology, and in a broader sense, of environmental ethics) are particularly linked: it seems that wisdom should be the virtue providing answers about our way of dwelling the world. Finally, we will argue about the need for a practical wisdom (phronesis) for the future of environmental ethics.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Philosophy y Center of Bioethics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago de Chile. Tel.: 56 2 2354 1479 luvalera@uc.cl.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Valera
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D004463:Ecology / Q000941:ethics*; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D028722:Virtues