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I wish Kohák made a more articulated defense of the moral sense of nature, but that may just be because I have studied at a university which views moral philosophy as a technē, in the way Kohák uses the word. His distinction between phenomenological ethics and ethics in a vacuum is incredibly interesting, but it’s position seems to be based on faith. Not necessarily wrong, but difficult to convince others.

Kohák identifies—correctly, in my opinion—the illness that currently affects human society and causes all the idealistic calls for a return to nature: we have lived in constant contact with our own creations and in a way we have forgotten for what purpose we built those artifacts. In a very interesting critique of Thoreau, he criticizes the primitivist philosophy, but believes that nature can help us remember.