Critique of Ontology- Reading Reflection

In my Environmental Ethics Course, we attempted to look at the value of other things in nature without using a human lens, or in this case, what the Greeks would call doxai. My professor showed us philosophers who tried to find the 'truth' within what the environment really was and claimed to have strayed away from a human point of view. In my opinion, the frustrating truth is that we will never be able to escape a human point of view because everything we do has a permanent lens tied to our being. Every word, every concept, every definition, every emotion has been coined by humankind and we sadly cannot communicate adequately with anything else. Those who claim we can communicate with nature are right on some fronts, but we always translate that communication into a human point of view. We, literally speaking, cannot get out of our own heads which can be frustrating considering how powerful they are. I feel that Ontology runs into the same dilemma as my ethics course did. These philosophers have a commonality of trying to find our what they 'truth' is, but sadly the truth we see is in bounds of the laws that we have already made up. 

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