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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.
— Jul 11, 2023 10:15PM
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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.
— Jul 11, 2023 10:19PM
