Value, Time, and Nature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11266533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick Ferre (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 417-431 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4275 • E-ISSN: 2153-7895 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/enviroethics19951748 |
| OpenAlex | W2055996206 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Notoriously, beauty is subject to time’s “tooth”; but—somehow—we sense also the imperviousness of achieved value to mere duration. This paradox is illustrated using a recent art event, and three principles analyzed from the case in point: (1) the exclusive intrinsic importance of subjective immediacy, (2) the necessity of intersubjective connections, and (3) the crucial place of instrumental value. Moving from art to metaphysics to nature, I conclude with discussions of habitat and of evolution. Only if a habitat’s instrumental value (for many centers of subjective immediacy besides human ones) is adequately respected can anthropocentric values be prevented from always “trumping” all others. I reconsider evolution in terms of many interconnected value-realizing subjects, presenting the proffered “kalogenic” perspective as a manifestation of the most fundamental process of the universe—one in which the pursuit, actualization, and defense of concrete beauty actually generates what we abstractly call “time.”
Applied philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Epistemology · General interest · Statistics · Evolution and Science Education · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 1998 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |