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    Exposure to nature can transform a person's preferences, ... — Carmelics
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    Exposure to nature can transform a person's preferences, tastes, and values

    Environmental Ethics
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    • 1.Someone exposed for the first time to a new musical genre may undergo a transformation in musical preferences, tastes, and values
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    • 2.Nature exposure functions analogously to exposure to a new musical genre in its capacity to transform values
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    • 3.Such transformations can affect other preferences and desires in both direct and indirect ways
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    • 1.Preference transformation requires a subject already disposed toward revaluation; nature exposure cannot instill what the character lacks.
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    • 2.Aristotelian habituation theory holds that stable values arise from repeated practice within social institutions, not from passive sensory exposure.
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    • 3.A solitary encounter with wilderness bypasses the communal reinforcement that Aristotle identifies as necessary for genuine virtue formation.
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    • 1.The music analogy fails because musical appreciation is culturally mediated through shared frameworks of meaning that nature, as non-symbolic, cannot provide.
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    • 2.Kant's aesthetic theory distinguishes free beauty from dependent beauty, implying nature's appeal is formal and affective, not normatively action-guiding.
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    • 3.An affective response to nature's sublimity does not entail durable preference revision, as Humean psychology separates momentary impressions from settled dispositions.
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    Despite the variety of positions in environmental ethics developed over the last thirty years, they have often focused on issues concerned with wilderness and the reasons for its preservation (see Callicott and Nelson 1998 for a collection of essays on the ideas and moral significance of wilderness). The importance of wilderness experience to the human psyche has been emphasized by many environmental philosophers. Næss, for instance, urges us to ensure we spend time dwelling in situations of int
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