Contemporary Philosophy

Contemporary Philosophy

by Lea Celik Sommerseth Shaw

We live in a world where morality has been outsourced to industrialism as a collective apathy. Ethics, has become an external code, that can only govern our attention, our choices, and our sense of worth, with revision.The ethical question is no longer “What is good?” but rather “Who governs good?”

The human condition today stands at a fragile intersection, we are at a vegative point of Industrialism, Natural world is claiming its authority with the downfall of industrialism, a constant interplay between empathy and performance, authenticity and manipulation. Society has not lost its moral compass; it has sold it to materialism.

I believe the morality and the ethics in its truest sense could be redefined in these times we are in, as an act of resistance, so to be moral is no longer to obey the norms of society, but to be able to see through the illusions that sustain it and then resonate, it begin in solitude, once the individual can see beyond the illusion to resonate.

Industrialism is built on a manipulated civilization, and detoriating humanity. Every act of goodness risks becoming a performance, every conviction a label, yet ethics belongs to the non materialists. The new moral frontier is not the public act, but individual intention, the refusal to participate in what diminishes humanity.

Industrialism does not lack intelligence, it lacks heart and soul, it's a plastic plant that cant blossom or flourish humanity. Ethics, evolve from abstraction to embodiment, from intellectual discourse to awareness, transcend ideology to consciousness: it an honest, true way of living, breathing sense of responsibility for the Natural world.

Future dont belong to Industrialism which a facade built to fall, but to Naturalism that will save the humanity from falling with it. The new challenge of Philosophy is therefore not only to define the good, but to awake the individual and its awareness of Industrialism labyrinth operates.

As the Naturalism reclaim its authority, the collective morality has to rediscover its dimension without boundaries, we must dare to imagine forms of living that defy the logic of materialism, that heal rather than exploit, that create rather than destroy. Ethics must be visionary, anticipate the world not as it is, but as it could be, if we remembered, humanity, not as consumers, not as citizens, but as beings capable of empathy and awe.

In these times of transition from Industrialism to Naturalism, between the human and the post human, between the earth and society our greatest moral act is to remain sentient, to feel deeply in a time that numbs our senses and to remain awake and aware to these sentients.

And so I return to the beginning: Naturalism, which is rising out of necessity, at a time where mankind seem to have forgotten humanity, where ethics is seen as resistance, and where resistance to ignorance and apathy seem provocative.

The societies tomorrow will not be built on Industrialism, because it has no more resources left to sustain itself by detoriating humanity, when humanity itself is on the verge to fall with it, and it could easily do so, but humanity belongs to Naturalism, which has always been superior to the manmade industrialism.

Lea Celik Sommerseth Shaw

Geneva 5 November 2025