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developed in the environmental or natural history sciences. Although it is
sometimes suggested that complete technological mastery of the environment
might be possible if environmental science could somehow be reduced to physics
and chemistry, it is important to recognize that these sciences are based on a
reductionist method that may be only partially appropriate to environmental
science, thereby making this possibility very unlikely.
Notwithstanding, Holmes Rolston summarizes the option usually taken by
environmentalist scholars: (43)
Still a philosopher ought to hope for some veridical unity in the mind, whatever
its divisions, and to try to make explicit rationally what is so often tacit…Our
upsets follow from our mindsets, and we are aroused to act in accord with what
we believe. It is a blending of thought, affection and willing that the epistemic
powers of the mind lie, and we need accordingly a philosophical account of a
suitable emotional response to nature.
Now the final words belong to Gregory Bateson who inspires this essay. Already
in 1958, dealing with environment and culture, he came up to the conclusion that
“explanation means to put frames of knowledge together” (44) . That was the
objective throughout this text which focuses on how the cultural meaning is
encoded in all aspects of contemporary life, including sport.
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