10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

noculture RR soybean. We investigate all aspects of total dependence on
agriculture of GMO crops with special emphasis on the negative aspects.
Many of the problems include: the excessive use of herbicides that have a
negative impact on biodiversity, as well as on human and animal health, the
case of massive deforestation and even famines. Argentina is an instructive
example for Croatia in the light of ever-growing demands for the introduction
of GMO crops in agriculture, from which the relevant authorities
could draw lessons.
GÁBOR KOVÁCS
Institute for Philosophical Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Budapest, Hungary /
Institut za filozofska istraživanja, Mađarska akademija znanosti,
Budimpešta, Mađarska
NOTIONS OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF HANNAH ARENDT
Modernity, in philosophical and sociological literature, has ‘traditionally’
been presented as the age when artefacts supplant nature and destroy
the originally given natural environment. The process of modernization,
from this point of view, is the process of denaturalization. This widely
shared conviction has basically been questioned by Hannah Arendt. During
the centuries of modern age, in the detriment of the commonly created
and uphold human world, process of re-naturalization has been taking
place, argues Arendt. This means, seen from other aspect, that modernity
is the age of world-alienation. It is one of the results of modern science
that human beings lose their confidence in the reliability of their senses.
The Arendtian critique of modernity, which has deeply been influenced by
Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, takes a difference between the notions of
earth and world. In Arendt’s theory technology is the main culprit for the
processes of re-naturalization. What are our relations, according to Arendt,
to earth and world and what kinds of obligations can be deduced from
them? These will be the main questions of my planned paper.
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