Ethics, Degrowth, and Resilience: The Complexity of the Transition Path Towards DemocraCity

Abstarct This chapter addresses the complex correlation between Nature and ethics. The juxtaposition of nature and ethics while intriguing raises some questions. Ethics, in the long history of research in the field that sees the Transition Darebin and Fiorivano le viole communities as the protagonists, plays a fundamental role in the creation of a society based on degrowth. Complex philosophical thought plays a seminal role in helping us understand the meaning and application of ethics within DemocraCity. Chapter Five thus, provides an overview of the background starting from the concept of Naturalism, established by the Mileto School in VII sec. BC refined and reinterpreted by Bacon, Descartes, Locke, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx, Bogdanov, Morin, until to the original thoughts of Serge Latouche, his limits, the response from the formal economy, and the introduction of concepts such as transition and resilience and their importance in the overall structure of a new narrative.