Pantheism and Ecologism

Regardless of Rationalist vs. Empiricist methodological differences, Descartes' Cogito and Leibniz' Windowless Monad are, like the Epistemological Subjects of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, Organisms detached from their Environments.  Thus, likewise regardless of methodological classification, the prominent outlier in the era is Spinoza.  For, though his Pantheism is not Biological, his concept of Mode is that of an entity that is essentially embedded in that of Nature, i. e. is Ecological.  Now, one persistent misconception of his doctrine is that it promotes the Adaptation-To of a Mode, i. e. that the highest achievement is the passive quiescence of a Mode in God/Nature.  However, for Spinoza, Understanding and Will are one and the same, and Adequate Knowledge is Adequate Causality.  Hence, Enlightenment is Empowerment, and unity with God/Nature consists in the harnessing of divine creativity.  In other words, Spinoza promotes the Adaptation-Of Nature by a Mode.  It is because this nascent Ecologism is a threat to the Theological concept, shared by Berkeley and Kant, of an Organism as detached from its Environment, with the latter converted into a medium of communication between a deity and an Organism, that Kant targets Spinoza specifically in the Third Critique--in a strained effort to establish that Reason requires that detachment.  Kant thus implicitly anticipates the more recent explicit Ecology-Theology conflicts.