Gratitude to Nature

Manela, Tony

doi:10.3197/096327118x15343388356356

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“…A commonplace in the philosophical literature on gratitude is that "obligations of gratitude cannot be exacted or demanded." 69 One who demands the return of gratitude betrays that their goal was not simply to benefit, that they were not a benefactor of pure good will. So, if any aspect of the return of filial piety is something that the parent can demand, then that return is not one of gratitude.…”

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Person-Creating and Filial Piety

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2023

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Section: Cannot Explain Parental Authoritymentioning

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Person-Creating and Filial Piety

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2023

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“…This definition implies that gratitude to nature likely depends on how someone views the natural environment. While some philosophers have argued that gratitude to nature is appropriate because inherent in nature's character are valuable, unearned benefits to humans (Bardsley, 2013), others have argued that gratitude to nature is inappropriate because nature is not a social agent (Manela, 2018). People's attitudes toward the natural environment are therefore likely to be heavily influenced by the specific naturalistic or spiritual worldview that they use to make sense of nature's qualities and find meaning in the benefits that nature provides to humans.…”

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The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes

White,

Billet

2023

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Emotions can be a powerful motivator of pro-environmental behavior, but less is known about how religious factors shape these emotional responses. Two studies investigated how spiritual views of nature – as an anthropomorphic being, that provides positive self-transcendent emotional experiences and spiritual resources – are associated with gratitude to the natural environment. Feeling gratitude was a robust unique predictor of pro-environmental attitudes, including a desire to preserve and protect nature, moral disapproval of environment degradation, and pro-environmental civic engagement. We documented the association between spiritual views of nature, gratitude, and pro-environmental attitudes in Singapore (n = 1375) and the United States (n = 745) and across diverse religious groups. Furthermore, the association between gratitude to nature and pro-environmentalism was not moderated by perceived overlap between God and the natural environment, indicating that spiritually-grounded feelings of gratitude to nature have direct associations with environmental attitudes that extend across religious and cultural boundaries.

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“…Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald offers the example of gratitude targeted at one's trusty old car or at a part of one's own body (Boleyn-Fitzgerald 2016, p. 114). Under this heading, we can also note various gratitudes in which the third node is something more unusual such as nature, an ecosystem (Bardsley 2013;Manela 2018), 'destiny,' 'fate,' 'life,' or 'the universe' (Solomon 2002). Following David Carr, I will use the term 'quasi-targeted gratitude' (Carr 2016, p. 171) to cover all these cases.…”

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Gratitude Is Only Fittingly Targeted Towards Agents

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2021

SOPHIA

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The paper argues that 'All varieties of gratitude are only overall fitting when targeted towards agents,' for instance that any variety of gratitude for the beautiful sunset is only overall fitting if a supernatural agent such as God exists. The first premise is that 'Prepositional gratitude is overall fitting only when targeted towards agents.' For this premise, intuitive judgments are offered. The second premise is that 'Prepositional gratitude is the paradigmatic variety of gratitude.' For this premise, an aspect of the common consent of philosophers about gratitude is noted and the metaphysical basicness of prepositional gratitude is argued for. This gives the intermediate conclusion that 'The paradigmatic variety of gratitude is overall fitting only when targeted towards agents.' The fourth premise is that 'If the paradigmatic variety of gratitude is overall fitting only when targeted towards agents, then all varieties of gratitude are overall fitting only when targeted towards agents.' To supply the conditional of this premise, the Paradigmatic Fittingness Principle is offered, which states that 'Paradigmatic emotions set the fittingness conditions for their non-paradigmatic varieties.' This principle is argued for by noting that it vindicates some popular and plausible intuitive judgements and gives an error theory of why one might think that gratitude could be fittingly targeted towards non-agents, and by suggesting the absence of any other plausible source of fittingness conditions for non-paradigmatic emotions.

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Gratitude to Nature

Cited by 19 publications

References 33 publications

Person-Creating and Filial Piety

Person-Creating and Filial Piety

The roles of anthropomorphism, spirituality, and gratitude in pro-environmental attitudes

Gratitude Is Only Fittingly Targeted Towards Agents

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