The problem of human relationship with natural environment was marked out practically from the start of civilization development. The perception of environmental friendliness’ necessity formed very slowly through nature deity towards first steady ethical norms of interaction with nature. The author was trying to monitor this process, to define to which extent these norms were preserved in our times, and stated that modern market era generated also market relations to nature when human activity is dominated not by nature preservation ideas but by profit maximization which would inevitably lead to ecological crises and catastrophes.
Keywords: nature; ecology; Caucasian epos; mythology; ethics.
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