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The article considers the possibilities of the function and constitution of aesthetic value in the contemporary, ambivalent notion of landscape. It begins with a preliminary analysis of three key concepts central to current discussions - namely, nature, landscape, and environment. It presents one of the dominant models of contemporary ideas about the aesthetics of landscape - the natural environmental model - and in particular its ambition to accommodate both the true character of today's relationship between man and his habitat and our aesthetic experience and understanding of it. Mainly, the essay points out the theoretical difficulties implied in this. In conclusion, the article suggests the hidden ethical dimension of our possible relationship to our environment (that is, nature-in-landscape).
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The main topic of this essay is the relation between philosophy and aesthetics as considered by the American philosopher Stephen C. Pepper (1891-1972). The essay has two parts. The first presents the thought-provoking theory of metaphysics (or metaphilosophy), which anticipated many important philosophical topics of the second half of the twentieth century, such as the metaphor in philosophy, the dynamic notion of structure, and the pluralistic conception of knowledge. Special attention is paid here to the core of Pepper's approach, the 'root metaphor' theory. The second part examines the application of Pepper's 'world hypotheses' to the field of aesthetics. The essay concludes by pointing out a gap in Pepper's argumentation, and by suggesting the creative development of this gap on the basis of Pepper's theory.
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