Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>My project discusses the important philosophical role that interacting with nature (as opposed to having limited access to nature preserves and the like) plays in the life of an individual. As such I discuss the biological implications for experiences of real (as contrasted with simulated) nature and, in so doing, also discuss the connection of biology to philosophy. I go on to discuss the sociological and psychological ramifications of this interactive relationship through notions such as love and community and their ties to philosophy. I then close with a discussion of the necessity of artistic expression and how those endeavors can be manifested or realized in and through experience with natural environments.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Open Access Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Philosophy
- Year dc:date.available
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Schrappe, David R.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Anderson, Douglas
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1035
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-2039