“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Saturday, July 24, 2010

Beautiful Soul Syndrome

Harman gets at the issue of the beautiful soul (or BS as I sometimes call it). This is a big problem with how environmentalism poses itself. Although I'm not sure the solution is to kick the beautiful soul—it seems to make it more beautiful...So in Ecology without Nature I argue we have to tunnel further in and find out what's there.

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