Deep Ecology as an Aesthetic Movement

Author: Lynch Tony  

Publisher: White Horse Press

ISSN: 1752-7015

Source: Environmental Values, Vol.5, Iss.2, 1996-05, pp. : 147-160

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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.