Self-Ecology; an Approach to theExplanation of the Interaction between Man and Nature

The environmental crises which have endangered life on the earth have made man think of finding ways to solve these crises and stop their development. Since it cannot be denied that man has a crucial role in causing these crises, some believe that protecting the environment requires setting a behavioral framework or code to ensure a proper interaction between man and nature and encouraging all people to observe it. In the last decades, philosophers have made a major contribution to explicating and designing this behavioral code extending moral views and obligations to creatures other than man. In the meantime, anthropology founded on Islamic thought is able to provide a comprehensive framework which ensures a proper moral interaction between man and nature. The present paper, using an analytical-descriptive method, tries to provide a comprehensive idea of the approach to environmental ethics (standards) called “self-ecology”.