Integral ecology and ‘ecological conversion’ in the light of personalistic hermeneutics

ABSTRACT The ecological question is currently one of the key issues in international public debate. This article attempts to present fundamental principles of a personalistic understanding of integral ecology with an emphasis put on the essence of a so-called ‘ecological conversion’. ‘ecological conversion’, however, cannot be perceived in a narrow sense only. Hence, the following paper is in accordance with a broad perspective that not only equates ‘ecological conversion’ with environmental ecology, by also sees the necessity of incorporating human ecology of both individual and social dimensions.