Autonomy and community from complex thought, and relational ethics of giving
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Autonomy, Communality, Complex Thought, Community Knowledge, The Common
Abstract
Thinking about community autonomy from the perspective of complex thought entails a critical examination of the subject inherited from modernity and a shift in reflection toward the domain of life. This epistemic turn allows autonomy to be understood not as an individual attribute linked to property, but as a relational practice situated within multiple ways of doing, being, and dwelling.
Modern epistemology, grounded in Cartesian logical-mathematical dualism, has been widely critiqued for rendering invisible other forms of knowledge. In this regard, what Boaventura de Sousa Santos terms “indolent reason” has contributed to the exclusion of non-hegemonic knowledges. In contrast, community-based knowledges emerge as legitimate forms of understanding that restore the relationship between the human and the more-than-human, within a framework of coexistence among the diverse beings inhabiting territories.
From the perspective of complex thought, community is conceived as a relational field in constant becoming, shaped by uncertainty, chaos, and the emergence of creativity within collective processes. In this context, communality is configured as an ethical and political practice oriented toward the care of the common and the strengthening of life forms in relation to nature, the Earth, and the cosmos as living systems.
Consequently, autonomy is redefined as a practice of giving, in which the subject is exposed to others and actively participates in the construction of the common. This article reflects on community autonomy as a situated practice emerging from community knowledges, aimed at fostering alternative ways of life in resistance to the individualistic and competitive logics of modernity.
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María Fernanda Gil Claros, Humanities and University Research Group, USC, Colombia
María Fernanda Gil Claros. Colombian. PhD in Existential Philosophy from Maitreya Buddhist University (Argentina). PhD candidate in Complex Thought at the Edgar Morin Multiversity of the Real World. Master's degree in Political Studies from the Pontifical Javeriana University. Social Worker from the University of Valle. Full-time Professor at the Santiago de Cali University, Faculty of Humanities and Arts. Member of the Humanities and University research group.