Translation by Eloísa Braceras

The planetary tragedy brought about by covid-19 has shown that the way in which humanity had organized its world and all its relationships can no longer remain valid, because it is too harmful for human beings, for nature and for the common home. This type of globalized society has exhausted all its potential and its capacity to solve the problems that it itself has raised, forcing it to seek a new direction.

This book is articulated around a new paradigm, which has existed for a hundred years, although it is not yet hegemonic. We come, and we are still within, a paradigm that is at the base of Modernity and is anthropocentric. It is the realm of the dominus: the human being as owner and lord of nature and the Earth, which only have meaning to the extent that they stick to it. It is true that man transformed the face of the earth and brought many achievements, but he also created a principle of self-destruction.

In the face of this worldview, the encyclical Fratelli tutti proposes a new paradigm: that of the frater, the brother, universal fraternity and social friendship. It is a paradigm that dislocates the center: from being a technical-industrialized and individualistic civilization it becomes a civilization of fraternity without borders, of social love, of the preservation and care of all life and in solidarity with the common destiny of humanity and the Earth.