Aesthethics: The Art of Ecological Responsibility
| Autor: | Michael S. Hogue |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | American Journal of Theology & Philosophy. 31:136-146 |
| ISSN: | 2156-4795 0194-3448 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/27944507 |
| Popis: | I. Opening The ecological crisis is one of the most critical moral concerns of the present. But the concern is not with the environment, or with that which surrounds us; it is not with an objectified nature, in relation to which humans stand as mere passive observers. Rather, ecological concern emerges from recognition that humanity participates in nature, that our behavior in the natural world affects our own present and future as well as the present and future of the biosphere and that we are morally answerable for this behavior, or responsible in, through, and for our participation.1 Understood in these ways, the ecological crisis can be viewed as an unfolding historical process generated by the structural forms and systemic values of human cultural life. Adequate response to the ecological crisis thus calls upon us to reimagine our moral responsibilities within nature. What does it mean to claim this, and what on earth could be the roles of the arts and of religious life in response? In this brief reflective article, I will engage this question by thinking through the ways in which the ecological crisis calls upon us to enlarge our moral imaginations and to enact moral creativity. The task is to reflect upon ways in which ecological responsibility can be understood as an aesthethical practice. The article is divided into three parts: 1) reflection on the relations between the true, the good, and the beautiful (I will be brief); 2) a discussion of con nections between symbolism and responsibility; 3) and thoughts on the roles of the arts and religion in reimagining and creatively manifesting ecological responsibility. |
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