Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Meaning of Place

Filozofski Vestnik 20 (2) (1999)
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In the concept of place the problems of ethics and aesthetics overlap in a particularly interesting and fruitful way. When an area or site becomes a place for us, we are not indifferent to it. A place is something to which we have a strong and significant relation; in my usage of the term “place”, place is defined by our personal connections to an area. Not every environment suits everyone. Although we can visually familiarise ourselves with many milieus, “placing” ourselves somewhere is something else, and requires compatibility between individual and environment. Place is a place for me – its significance arises largely, although not exclusively, from meanings and values it gains through me. This has both ethical and aesthetic consequences: our judgments are based on the personal attachment we have to a place, and these judgments are strongly determined by our interests.

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reprint Haapala, Arto (1999) "Aesthetics, Ethics, and the Meaning of Place". In , , pp. 253-264: Ljubljana: Filozofski Institut (1999)

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Arto Haapala
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