Journal article
Beauty
Abstract
Human awareness of natural beauty stimulates the formation of environmental ethics. I build from the insights of Jonathan Edwards, the American Puritan theologian. The experience of beauty creates and sustains relationships. Natural beauty is an aspect of that which holds things together, supporting life and individuation. Beauty joins experience to ethics. We experience beauty intuitively: it is an affecting experience which motivates thought …
Authors
Austin RC
Journal
Environmental Ethics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 197–208
Publisher
Philosophy Documentation Center
DOI
10.5840/enviroethics19857340
ISSN
0163-4275