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In the last contribution, Alexandra Romanyshyn discusses the role that a metaxological worldview can play in environmental ethics. She suggests that Desmond’s critique of modernity explains the disregard and devaluation shown towards nature, and that metaxology can provide a more ethical approach to nature.
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See: “So we can restate the point concerning the grounding milieu of value: modernity’s shaping of the ethos grows out of distrust of equivocity, expressed in the univocalizing mentality of dualistic opposition that produces a devaluing objectification of being on one side and a subjectification of value on the other side” (EB 41).
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For a helpful example of ‘overdeterminacy’, see EB 163.
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For more of Desmond’s thoughts on a scientific worldview, see EB 213, 238 and 379–380.
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Desmond writes, “This aesthetic univocity of value is a pre-reflective univocity: lived in very definite ways, especially as defined by the common sense of communities ; not made an object of determinate thinking unless there is a breakdown, an unforeseen change, or a deprivation” (EB 57).
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Romanyshyn, A. (2018). Metaxology and Environmental Ethics: On the Ethical Response to the Aesthetics of Nature as Other in the Between. In: Vanden Auweele, D. (eds) William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics, and Aesthetics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98992-1_18
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