Deep Ecology as an Aesthetic Movement
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environmental Values
- Vol. 5 (2) , 147-160
- https://doi.org/10.3197/096327196776679357
Abstract
Many deep ecologists call for a ‘new ecological ethic’. If this ethic is meant to be a moral ethic, then deep ecology fails. However if deep ecology is interpreted as an aesthetic movement, then it is both philosophically coherent and practically adequate.Keywords
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