if we see it as a process of social self-institution where there is no divinely or objectively defined code of human conduct such guarantees are by definition ruled out therefore the replacement of the market economy by a new institutional framework of inclusive democracy constitutes only the necessary condition for a harmonious relation between the natural and social worlds the sufficient condition refers to the citizens level of ecological consciousness still the radical change in the dominant social paradigm that would follow the institution of an inclusive democracy combined with the decisive role that paedeia will play in an environmentally-friendly institutional framework could reasonably be expected to lead to a radical change in the human attitude towards nature