Plants as Objects： Challenges for anAesthetics of Flora  

作　　者：John Charles Ryan 

机构地区：[1]Edith Cowan University

出　　处：《Journal of Philosophy Study》2011年第3期222-236,共15页哲学研究（英文版）

摘　　要：This paper presents the conceptual challenges to an aesthetic model of living plants based in embodied interaction with flora through smell, taste, touch, sound and sight. I argue that the science of aesthetics is deterministically visual. Drawing from theories of landscape aesthetics put forth by Carlson and Berleant, I outline four primary obstacles to an embodied aesthetics： plants as objects of sight, plants as objects of art, plants as objects of disinterestedness and plants as objects of scientific discourse. A multi-sensorial aesthetics of flora requires auto-centric proximity and degrees of intersubjectivity between the appreciator and the appreciated plant that raise important philosophical questions about aesthetic experience of the natural world.

关 键 词：AESTHETICS philosophy environment PLANTS Berleant CARLSON EMBODIMENT 

分 类 号：S858.287.1[农业科学—临床兽医学] Q948.5[农业科学—兽医学]