Titlebook: Ecology and Justice—Citizenship in Biotic Communities; David R. Keller Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Arcadianism.Beauty in

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Ecological Thinking in the Western Traditioney are assumptions. Another idea central to protoecology, which also has its origin in Plato, is that each thing in nature has a ., or purpose, which resides outside of nature in a supernatural realm: the realm of eternal, immutable, immaterial forms that the natural world, due to the inherent mutab

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Entities in Patterned Processdent efficient causes. This means that everything can in principle be explained in terms of material and efficient causes alone. A mechanical clock, with its gears and springs, illustrates the idea. Every movement of the hands of the clock is causally determined by the internal mechanisms of the clo

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Realism or Relativism?iod to another. Such “truths” are therefore not objective facts of nature—they tell us nothing about what mind and culture-independent nature is . like. Consequently, it is not possible to ground an ethical prescription regarding treatment of nature in objective facts of nature. Nor is it possible t

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Beauty, Bioempathy and Ecological Ethics and systems, induce bioempathy, which moves us to show appropriate respect and restraint in our treatment of nature. At the same time, recognition of beauty as an intrinsic value provides a rational ground for pertinent prescriptions and proscriptions. Thus, inferences from description to prescript