PLANET ETHİCS: A GAIA-BASED ETHİCAL MODEL

Yıl 2025, Cilt: 6 Sayı: 12, 209 - 228, 26.12.2025

İlke Örçen Güler , Sefer Örçen

https://doi.org/10.51727/tbj.1831689

Öz

This study argues that classical ethical models are inadequate in the face of the multifaceted ethical crisis posed by the Anthropocene and proposes a new ethical paradigm based on Gaia ontology. While modernity's distinction between nature and society positions humans as autonomous agents detached from the planet's functioning, the Anthropocene has revealed a new ontological situation in which human actions produce geological impacts, generate feedback, and determine planetary stability. By analyzing mythological, scientific, and contemporary philosophical interpretations of Gaia, the study demonstrates that the Gaia 2.0 framework redefines humanity's intraplanetary position through a reflexive and collective capacity for self-regulation. Building on this conceptual foundation, Planetary Ethics offers a new normative model that evaluates ethical action through the impact of actions on the Earth System rather than individual intentions. The study discusses the potential of this model, shaped around the principles of relational responsibility, planetary boundary awareness, collective intentionality, long-term responsibility, and epistemic humility, to address the need for political, ecological, and institutional transformation posed by the Anthropocene. The findings suggest that ethical thinking needs to shift away from modern assumptions that separate humans from Gaia and toward a more participatory orientation in the planet's ongoing collective regulatory processes.

Anahtar Kelimeler

: Anthropocene , Gaia , Gaia Ethics , System Science.

GEZEGEN ETİĞİ: ANTROPOSEN İÇİN GAİA TEMELLİ BİR ETİK MODEL

Öz

Bu çalışma, Antroposen çağının ortaya çıkardığı çok boyutlu etik kriz karşısında klasik etik modellerin yetersiz kaldığını savunmakta ve Gaia ontolojisine dayalı yeni bir etik paradigma önermektedir. Modernitenin doğa ve toplum arasında kurduğu ayrım, insanı gezegenin işleyişinden kopuk özerk bir özne olarak konumlandırırken; Antroposen, insan eylemlerinin jeolojik etkiler ürettiği, geri beslemeler yarattığı ve gezegensel istikrarı belirlediği yeni bir ontolojik durum açığa çıkarmıştır. Çalışma, Gaia’nın mitolojik, bilimsel ve çağdaş felsefi yorumlarını analiz ederek Gaia 2.0 çerçevesinin, insanlığın gezegen içi konumunu “refleksif ve kolektif bir öz-düzenleme” kapasitesiyle yeniden tanımladığını göstermektedir. Bu kavramsal zemin üzerine inşa edilen Gezegensel Etik, etik eylemi bireysel niyetlerden ziyade eylemlerin Dünya Sistemine etkileri üzerinden değerlendiren yeni bir normatif model sunmaktadır. Çalışma, ilişkisel sorumluluk, gezegensel sınır duyarlılığı, kolektif niyetlilik, uzun zaman ölçeklerine karşı sorumluluk ve bilginin sınırlılığı ilkeleri etrafında şekillenen bu modelin, Antroposen’in neden olduğu siyasal, ekolojik ve kurumsal dönüşüm ihtiyacına yanıt verme potansiyelini tartışmaktadır. Bulgular, etik düşüncenin insanı Gaia’dan ayrıştıran modern kabullerden uzaklaşarak, gezegenin devam eden ortak düzenleyici süreçlerine katılım temelli bir yönelime ihtiyaç duyduğunu göstermektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Antroposen , Gaia , Gezegen Etiği , Sistem Bilimi

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