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At the end of the century, we seemed to become aware of our reality.

Suddenly, new conflicts erupt and the dormant wars awake: ethnic hatreds, racial and ideological hatreds. Morin wrote about this moment:

“Still until the 1950s-1960s, we lived in an unknown land, we lived on an abstract Earth, we lived on an object Earth. Our end of the century discovered the Earth-system, the Earth Gaia, the biosphere, the cosmic parcel, the Fatherland. Each of us has our genealogy and our earthly identity card. identity card. Each of us comes from the Earth, is from the Earth, is on the Earth.

We belong to the Earth that belongs to us” (Morin, 2003, p. 175).

So what would this awareness be, Morin writes:

– “the awareness of the unity of the Earth (telluric consciousness);

– the awareness of the unity/diversity of the biosphere (ecological

ecological awareness);

– the awareness of the unity/diversity of man (anthropological awareness);

– becoming aware of our anthropo-bio-physical;

– becoming aware of our dasein, the

fact of “being there”, without knowing why;

– becoming aware of the planetary era;

– the awareness of the Damoclean threat;

– the awareness of the doom on the horizon of our lives, of

every life, every planet, every sun;

– the awareness of our earthly destiny. “ (Morin, 2003, p. 175)

Although he recognizes that he needs to go further, as he writes: “And it is through these awarenesses that messages can now come from the most diverse horizons, some from faith, others from ethics, others from humanism, others from ro- mantism, others from the sciences, others from the awareness of the planetary iron age” (Morin, 2003, p. 176), he is stuck with the idea of the humanism of the Enlightenment “which recognizes the quality of all men” (idem), but comes up against human limitations without knowing how to overcome them.

“Mastering nature? Man is still incapable of controlling his own nature, whose madness drives him to dominate nature by losing control of himself. Mastering the world?” (Ibidem), the author is not clear about the awareness of the divine in the ‘most diverse horizons’.

Without being part of the imaginary high point of civilization, which sees a new civilization in the distance, which the author himself acknowledges: “This man must relearn earthly finitude and renounce the false infinity of omnipotent technique … “ (p. 177), but the cosmos is not the limit.

Morin, E. e Kern, B. (2003) Terra-Pátria. Transl. Paulo Neves, Brazil, Porto Alegre: Sulina.