Hobbes or Confucius? Climate change and forms of identity

Abstract

In times of uncontrolled anthropogenic climate change that endangers the survival of the human species itself, it seems obligatory to consider a religion, politics, philosophy… commonly known as "Confucianism" or "school of scholars" but whose literal denomination 儒 家 rú jiā, alludes precisely to human 亻rén, control of rain, 雨 yǔ, for newly sprouted plants, 而 er, i.e., to human climate control. Thus, in this paper we will analyze the compatibility of that philosophy, politics, religion… with the currently dominant political model: the nation state, which would have its metaphorical expression in the Hobbesian Leviathan and this from the ways of being, from the ways of understanding the identity that they carry respectively and with a view to a possible solution that allows controlling said anthropogenic climate change that is currently out of control.