• Romanticism and Livestock Farming

  

  Those who speak positively about livestock farming are often accused of having fallen into an insidious ‘Romanticism’. They view these idyllic pastoral scenes with overly-sentimental eyes, and this clouds their judgement. Is this true? If it were, it might be a problem: it is important to see things clearly – undistorted – and sentimentalism is one of the many distortions of thought that can creep in, like prejudice and other forms of bias. […]

  drtobybetenson

  21st Dec 2023

  Philosophy

  Agriculture, Cynicism, Environment, Ethics, Farming, Kierkegaard, Livestock, Metaethics, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Raimond Gaita, Romanticism, Socrates, Wittgenstein

A Student of Socrates

Tag: Kierkegaard