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De la beauté au devoir: esthétique de la nature et éthique environmentale
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2015) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, publisher
In both environmental aesthetics and environmental ethics something of value is at stake. These are often connected: If beauty, then: duty. But not all duties are tied to beauties. Other premises, such as resource use or respect for life, might better yield duties. Human aesthetic capacities depend on aesthetic properties of value. Wildlife admirers focus on animal excellences. Biotic communities, ecosystems, have their integrities. In a participatory aesthetics, an appropriate admiration for nature transforms into our caring.
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La valeur dans la nature et la nature de la valeur
(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2007) Rolston, Holmes, 1932-2025, author; Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, publisher
Value is often thought not to exist in wild nature; it is bestowed on nature by human preferences. This prevailing account is too anthropocentric. In nature, animals value their lives; they too can have their preferences satisfied. Plants have vital needs. Species are historical forms of life defended over generations. Ecosystems are "able to generate value," as occurs with the evolution and ecological support of organisms, animals, and humans. Earth, taken as earth, dirt, seems of little intrinsic value; but Earth, the home planet, is systemically valuable, the ground of all value.