Mankind, master or slave of nature?
Should we consider nature as a matter measurable by mathematics and modifiable by technique?
Should we become "Masters and possessors of nature" as Descartes so well pointed out?
In terms of ecology crisis, these issues are now echoing into the future of humanity.
The Asian cultural heritage may give us an answer.
Indeed, the morality conveyed by the three great Asian religions and philosophies which are Sinism, Taoism and Confucianism find expression in the respect of nature.
The human being is no different from Nature. He is one of them.
Sinism was a natural religion, that it is to say, that of intermediary between gods and men.
This religion preached the existence of a natural order and of a harmony in nature which should not be disturbed.
In Taoism, human beings must not manifest the claim to the domination of nature, but must be part in the universal order and seek the balance in nature.
Confucianism, endly, considering human being as the product of nature