Bangladesh, Dec. 5 -- The environmental crises confronting the world today—climate change, mass extinction, deforestation, and the poisoning of air and water—reveal not only ecological collapse but a profound philosophical failure: the alienation of humanity from the natural world. Modernitys mechanistic view of nature as lifeless matter to be mastered has yielded extraordinary technological power, yet at the cost of ecological balance and spiritual belonging. The German Idealist Friedrich Schelling offers a radical alternative through his Naturphilosophie: a vision of nature as a living, self-organizing, and creative whole in which humanity participates rather than dominates. For Schelling, nature is not object but subject...