HUMAN FREEDOM AND THE THEISTIC VALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

The thrust interest of this paper is based on the indispensable relations between the employment of human actions in freedom and the belief in the presence of God in human affairs for the management and sustainability of the environment as a common home. With humanistic conceptualization of development, the environment remains as a gift from creation that cannot be monopolised but it demands to be commonly valued and managed for the realization of the common good and solidarity as principles of the sustainability of human generations, even in an imposing age of scientific and technological civilization. The developmental concerns for the environment demand that human persons, irrespective of their colour, religion and any other social, cultural, economic and political convictions and beliefs, should think and act rightly and ethically in advancing the world around them for the purpose of common living, survival and salvation, especially with reference to the values of creation. Adopting the phenomenological method of analysis, the paper concludes that, through the developmental consciousness for the realization of integral humanism, the community of the human person can sustain the environment that has been entrusted to him or her by the creator, God. This consciousness for integral humanism is simply by recognising the presence of God in every facet of developmental policies and objectives of the peoples, and by responsibly exercising one's actions in true freedom and genuine charity in truth.

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