Responsability

This essay explores the concept of responsibility with respect to today’s ecological and pandemic crisis. It identifies a fundamental category in “strategic repentance,” that is the ability to reconsider prior decisions based on the environmental feedback resulting from one’s activities. The model of this judicious and repentant behaviour can be traced back, on the one hand, to the animal kingdom, and, on the other hand, to the artistic domain. Thus, both a bat and Michelangelo can be viewed as masters of a new action scheme, based on feedback loops and in-progress revision of previously adopted strategies.