The Paradigm of the Wild, Cultural Diversity, and Chinese Environmentalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Yuedi Liu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Aesthetics ◽  
Holmes Rolston Iii

The so-called “Paradigm of the Wild” means either environmental ethics or environmental aesthetics has gone wild. According to Holmes Rolston, III, “philosophy has gone wild.” Chinese traditional environmentalism takes another anthropocosmic way, and it has a global applicability in cultural diversity. The dichotomy of “nature-culture” is already out of date, and humans have to face the new relation of humanized-nature today. From the perspec­tive of “ethics and aesthetics” in Chinese Confucianism, a different passageway between environmental ethics and environmental aesthetics can be shaped.

A Estética do Invisível Na Natureza

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (29) ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Cristina Beckert ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Moral Law ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Holmes Rolston Iii ◽  
The Invisible

This paper aims at showing the interdependence between aesthetic and ethic values in appreciating nature. The Kantian concept of sublime guides us in the first part, exhibiting the primacy of ethics over aesthetics, as the sublime reveals it self to be an analogon of the moral law and the respect due to it. The second part, based on the holistic tendency in Environmental Ethics hold by Holmes Rolston III and others, analyses how the relation is inverted by means of an aesthetic of the invisible, where the sublime in nature refers to the whole and is hidden under the apparent ugliness of the parts.

1. Origins

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Human Impacts ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
Holmes Rolston Iii ◽  
Ecological Science ◽  
Arne Næss ◽  
Arne Naess

For centuries we have been changing the natural world around us, through hunting and farming; building, mining, and engineering; and travelling and trading. But we can no longer take it for granted. ‘Origins’ outlines the rise of ecological science in the 20th century and the new awareness of the unexpected side-effects of human impacts on the environment raised by Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac (1949) and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962). It also describes the emergence of environmental ethics with the work of philosophers Richard Routley, Arne Naess, and Holmes Rolston III. One common feature of their contributions was their rejection of a human-interests-only or ‘anthropocentric’ approach to ethics.

Perspetivas Antropocêntricas e Egocêntricas da Estética Ambiental

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (40) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Jorge Marques da Silva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Historical Evolution ◽  
Environmental Aesthetics

The connection between Sustainable Development, Environmental Ethics and Environmental Aesthetics is discussed. The historical evolution of the concept “Sustainable Development”, from its foundation on the 1980’s to current days, is analyzed. Then, the ethics of Sustainable Development is characterized on the framework of Environmental Ethics. To conclude, different perspectives of Environmental Aesthetics are considered, and their potential to directly support an environmental ethics and, finally, a sustainable environmental politics, is evaluated.

A New Environmental Ethics — The Next Millennium for Life of Earth by Holmes Rolston III

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-388
Author(s):  
Lisbeth Witthøfft Nielsen ◽  
Zohar Lederman
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Holmes Rolston Iii

scholarly journals Estética Natural e Ética Ambiental, Que Relação?

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (39) ◽  
pp. 131-139
Author(s):  
Maria José Varandas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Environmental Aesthetics ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Recent Approach ◽  
Consistent Basis ◽  
Inherent Part

This paper defends that environmental aesthetics provides a consistent basis for environmental philosophy, whereas aesthetic value plays an important role in the defense and preservation of natural areas. For several environmental philosophers the natural beauty is an inherent part of the ethical concern. Leopold States that “a thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the balance and the beauty of the biotic community”. Notwithstanding, aesthetic value is still not a central issue in the environmental debate. On the other hand, the “positive aesthetics” (Allen Carlson), which is a recent approach that reevaluates “positively” natural beauty in the ethical context, obtains a core of objections. This paper sketches a few arguments defending the contiguity between environmental aesthetics and environmental ethics: (i) the emotional perception of inclusiveness and engagement on the aesthetics appreciation of nature; (ii) the feelings of grace and love to ward nature inherent to the nature’s aesthetic appreciation which according Kant announces the moral feeling; (iii) the ecological knowledge of natural beauty in order to understand the full meaning of it, and that includes some natural entities seen as not beautiful.

Holmes Rolston, III: Environmental Ethics

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-368
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Holmes Rolston Iii
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