By Forrest Clingerman & Brian Treanor & Martin Drenthen & David Utsler
Glossy environmentalism has come to gain that a lot of its key issues "wilderness" and "nature" between them are contested territory, seen otherwise by way of various humans. knowing nature calls for technological know-how and ecology, to ensure, however it additionally calls for a sensitivity tom, background, tradition, and narrative. hence, realizing nature is a essentially hermeneutic job
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Regarding the relations of the three main groups to each other, it seems that traditionally officials have taken priority over both academics and people. indd 26 8/2/2013 1:22:57 PM Hermeneutics Deep in the Forest 27 just what the underlying problems are and which different approaches have been and can be taken. This has the merit of helping to ensure that the problems and conflicts are addressed in a clear and intelligent manner without the different stakeholders involved talking, as they often do, at cross-purposes.
In most Greek ethical theories, nonhuman nature and thus also forests would be valuable only as a means to realizing the excellence (arete) of human life, which is the highest purpose in the hierarchicalteleological order of nature. Likewise, most traditional forms of Christian ethics take nature and forests—in particular, “creation”— to be valuable only as a means for the soul’s journey to God. Modern utilitarianism would see a forest as valuable in relation to its utility as a dwelling place, life-support, resource, and recreation for realizing the greatest good of the greatest number of human beings.
Though human understanding would never get off the ground without them, all these dimensions provide us with only starting points that can and should be raised to the level of reflection, analyzed, and critically defended. This demand for rationality or, better said, reasonableness in our communicative dealings with others would, of course, be empty without acknowledged norms or criteria for legitimating our viewpoints. We need to be able to appeal communally to criteria that allow us to decide about the truth of interpretations and to settle disputes between conflicting interpretations.