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Aesthetic Appreciation, Wonder, and the Intrinsic Value of Nature| title | Aesthetic Appreciation, Wonder, and the Intrinsic Value of Nature |
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| start_date | 2023/06/01 |
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| schedule | 09h50-11h20 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle AS1_08 |
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| summary | Many environmental philosophers have sought to make a case for the preservation of and respectful attitudes toward nature based on the notion of the objective, intrinsic value of at least some non-sentient nature. In fact, making a case for the intrinsic value of nature emerged into the 1990s as “the central theoretical quest of environmental philosophy” (Callicott 1992, 129). This quest, however, like many quests, has proven elusive, to the point of seeming Quixotic. Thus, many environmental philosophers have looked instead to aesthetic value to ground environmental preservation efforts. In this paper, I shall argue that the deepest contribution to environmental ethics made by aesthetics is not directly via the aesthetic value of nature, but is rather epistemic. That is to say, it is through the emotion of wonder, aroused oftentimes by cognitively-rich, deep appreciation of at the natural world, that the intrinsic value of nature shows up to us. This explains why it has been so difficult for environmental philosophers to justify the intrinsic value of nature : A person has to be brought to feel it, and one of the best ways to feel it is through wonder-inducing aesthetic experiences. |
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| responsibles | Dokic, Arcangeli |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/05/24 13:28 UTC |
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