Environmental Ethics

Volume 29, Issue 2, Summer 2007

Dana Anderson
Pages 115-130

Ethical Sight

Unconsidered visual acts carry with them embedded presuppositions that arise with the speed of thought. The mind’s virtually instantaneous labeling of objects perceived forces subconscious (though learned) categorization that infects the results obtained from acts seeing acts. Chief among these biased results is a presumed divide between self and other that is both ecologically false and philosophically dangerous.