Considerazioni sull'enciclica di Papa Francesco "Laudato si'"

Remarks on the encyclical by Pope Francis Laudato si’ (“Praise be to you”). The encyclical Laudato si’ by Pope Francis in June 2015 is undoubtedly an important document. The Roman Catholic Pontiff exhorts “all persons of good will” to take care of our «common house». He declares that the narrow-minded, arrogant anthropocentric conception of nature, for which many Christians have thought to find justification in the Scriptures, is wrong. He proposes a «comprehensive ecology», embracing both the relationship between man and nature and the relationship between peoples and generations. He condemns the «dominant technocratic paradigm», the «consumer culture», the «logic of finance», the «magical conception of the market», «utilitarian pragmatism» and «logic lying beneath present-day culture». He states that the cry coming from the South of the world merges with the cry of the Earth violated and exploited. «Care» and «custody» must be correlated with «justice». The encyclical text deals with many topics and raises many questions, but also several doubts. The latter concern the image of nature, which is implicit in the encyclical, and there is some vagueness in many of the practical suggestions resulting from it. Parole chiave: Papa Francesco, ecologia, enciclica, degrado ambientale, etica Key words: Pope Francis, ecology, encyclical, deterioration of the environment, ethics