TY  - JOUR
A1  - Godess-Riccitelli, Moran
T1  - The cipher of nature in Kant's third Critique
BT  - how to represent natural beauty as meaningful?
JF  - Con-Textos Kantianos : international journal of philosophy
N2  - What is it that we encountered with in our aesthetic experience of natural beauty? Does nature "figuratively speaks to us in its beautiful forms", 2 to use Kant's phrasing in the third Critique, or is it merely our way of interpreting nature whether this be its purpose or not? Kant does not answer these questions directly. Rather, he leaves the ambiguity around them by his repeated use of terminology of ciphers when it comes to our aesthetic experience in nature. This paper examines Kant's terminology of ciphers in the Critique of Judgment and demonstrate through it the intimate link aesthetic experience in natural beauty has with human morality. A link whose culmination point is embodied in the representation of beauty as a symbol of morality.
KW  - aesthetic experience
KW  - aesthetic judgment
KW  - critique of judgment
KW  - figurative language
KW  - morality
KW  - natural beauty
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 2386-7655
IS  - 12
SP  - 338
EP  - 357
PB  - Instituto de Filosofía del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
CY  - Madrid
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Burgold, Julia
A1  - Rolfes, Manfred
T1  - Of voyeuristic safari tours and responsible tourism with educational value observing moral communication in slum and township tourism in Cape Town and Mumbai
JF  - Die Erde : journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin ; Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin
N2  - Sightseeing in the poorest quarters of southern hemisphere cities has been observed occurring in Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai and many other cities. The increasing global interest in touring poor urban environments is accompanied by a strong morally charged debate; so far, this debate has not been critically addressed. This article avoids asking if slum tourism is good or bad, but instead seeks a second-order observation, i.e. to investigate under what conditions the social praxis of slum tourism is considered as good or bad, by processing information on esteem or dis-esteem among tourists and tour providers. Special attention is given to any relation between morality and place, and the thesis posited is that the moral charging of slum tourism is dependent on the presence of specific preconceived notions of slums and poverty. This shall be clarified by means of references to two empirical case studies carried out in (1) Cape Town in 2007 and 2008 and (2) Mumbai in 2009.
KW  - Slum tourism
KW  - township tourism
KW  - morality
KW  - place
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 0013-9998
VL  - 144
IS  - 2
SP  - 161
EP  - 174
PB  - Gesellschaft für Erdkunde
CY  - Berlin
ER  -