1 / 7

Sheila Lintott, Bucknell University a nd Allen Carlson, University of Alberta

The Aesthetic Dimension of the Interrelations between Ecological Science and Ethics : The Other Leopoldian Bridge*. Sheila Lintott, Bucknell University a nd Allen Carlson, University of Alberta

marvin-holcomb
Download Presentation

Sheila Lintott, Bucknell University a nd Allen Carlson, University of Alberta

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Aesthetic Dimension of the Interrelations between Ecological Science and Ethics:The OtherLeopoldianBridge* Sheila Lintott, Bucknell University and Allen Carlson, University of Alberta * This presentation is based on a plenary address that Lintott and Carlson will give at the 2011 Cary Conference on Ecology, Philosophy, and Environmental Ethics.

  2. “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” • Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River [1949/1953] (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), p. 262. From the perspective of ecological science, beauty, it is often contended, is subjective and relatively trivial, whereas integrity and stability are objective and relatively important. Beauty?

  3. Considering the role of beauty in an ecological context How might the aesthetic dimension serve as a link between ecological science and ethics? What is the nature of beauty, this “other Leopoldian bridge,” and how can it lead us from ecology to our obligations to preserve?

  4. Aesthetic Appreciation and Preservation A new conservation acquisition on the Washington coast http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/washington/misc/art33147.html?src=news Leonardo da Vinci Portrait of Mona Lisa 1503-06http://www.artchive.com

  5. Nature of Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature formalistic/ picturesque relativistic/ postmodern scientific/cognitivist

  6. Jackson Pollock,  Number 1 1950 http://www.nga.gov Caravaggio,The Taking of Christ 1602 http://www.nga.gov

  7. Imagine Two Stands of Trees

More Related