The environment and the background of human life. Nature, facts and values
The chapter explores the importance of an attitude towards the natural environment understood as the wider and, to a certain degree, independent background of our practices. The independence and the distance established by animals and environments is a kind of fact which articulates our overall conceptual dimension: it is in fact the background which makes sense of the importance and of the depth of our inhabiting the world, of our encounters with others, and of many activities.