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Environmental Virtue Ethics: Core Concepts And Values, Mark H. Dixon
Environmental Virtue Ethics: Core Concepts And Values, Mark H. Dixon
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
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The Architecture Of Solitude, Mark H. Dixon
The Architecture Of Solitude, Mark H. Dixon
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
As a spiritual or meditative practice solitude implies more than mere silence or being alone. While these are perhaps indispensablecomponents, it is possible to be alone or to live in silence and nevertheless be unable to reconfigure these into genuine solitude. Solitude is also more than being in some remote or inaccessible place. Even though geographical isolation might be conducive to solitude, with rare exceptions human beings have seldom sought solitude in complete seclusion in the wilderness. The places where human beings have sought solitude have in the end been human places, human-built places. It should come as no surprise …