Analyzing the Ontological Foundations of the Contemporary Environmental Crisis and the Conditions for Overcoming it Based on Martin Heidegger's Thinking

Human life is inevitably linked with the environment and nature. Water, air, food, etc all are guarantors of the survival of human life and activities on earth. Humans reside on the earth, and so their dependence on the earth and other beings is supposed to be all other proportions of them. But mostly the relation gradually ends up neglecting one side, the environment, and using it as a resource in favor of human on the other side. This relation is based on the dominant thinking of the subject-object and neglect of other environmental values. The continuation of this situation will seriously damage the life of the earth and all beings. Martin Heidegger, a contemporary German philosopher who considers the history of Western thought as a history of neglect of being, believed that the deep roots of the current human relationship with nature and environmental crisis are in the particular perception of beings according to which beings are considered as mere human’s objects for domination of them. Heidegger considers such a relation to beings and the whole of nature as a subjective relation and attempts to solve the problem by means of the question of being and dwelling in the earth on the basis of friendship and the negation of dualism.