NOVITA'[1376]

The paper is a new version of Galanti, 2024, read at the World Congress of Philosophy 2024 (Hermeneutics Section) and already published online on Stultifera Navis. I propose specific criteria necessary for the fulfilment of a 'sustainability in first person' approach and link it to a widespread acknowledgement of the necessity of reclaiming agency through holistic, experiential methods. Hermeneutical action is defined as action accompanied by, and following from, the feeling of truth. I sketch a transformative learning intervention called “Miniatures of Evolution”, a development of the practice “Thinking at the Edge”, devised by the philosopher Eugene T. Gendlin. MoE uses abduction as the process of linking experiential terms to the theoretical term “evolution” to form new hypothesis on what “evolution might be.” Sustainable action is then the process of giving context to the hypothesis to verify it in concrete life situations. I demonstrate the creation of the “naked” universal “trust in the environment” as stemming from and leading to evolutionary “stuff.” In the conclusive remarks I introduce the concept of “epistemic independence” as pointing to a knowing capable of supporting human beings in the ecological crisis. As I will start teaching MoE online in April 2026, I also link to the full program of the course for the readers interested in experiencing my approach.