A Paradigm Shift: How Macrobioethics Can Assist in the Transition from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism

Abstract

Environmental preservation is not made in order to protect the environment, but to the man's own protection. Although there are political and legal instruments to deal with the claim "environmental protection," what we see, in fact, it is the manipulation of nature for the benefit of humanity. The objective of this study is to demonstrate, succinctly, as was the historical evolution to the anthropocentric paradigm, and its consequences on international policies relating to the environment. We Will provide an analysis of the major international treaties involving the environment to demonstrate that, although there is an anthropocentric logic, there are signs, albeit modest, that we are coming to a point of change. With the emergence of "new issues" of international law, as the topics covered in the post- Second

World War were called, played down the almost exclusive that security and the economy had in international forums to be an increase in the discussions on, for example, environmental issues. This change of political nature, associated with the emergence of new philosophies, is creating a favorable environment to occur, probably even in the current century, a paradigm shift that transforms the theoretical basis of anthropocentrism to ecocentrism, modifying the way the man It relates to the environment in which it is inserted.