Thoughts on the “appropriate aesthetic appreciation” of nature:
1. Aesthetic means “involving the arts.”
2. Aesthetic appreciation refers variously to our valuation/assessment/enjoyment of the arts.
3. “Appropriate” aesthetic appreciation is variable and context-dependent.
4. Therefore, (from 1 &2) only art objects (including events) are the proper object of (appropriate) aesthetic appreciation.
5. Art objects are, minimally, intentional artifacts.
6. Nature is not an intentional artifact.
7. Therefore, (from 5 & 6) nature is not an art object.
8. Therefore, (from 4 & 7) there can be no (appropriate or inappropriate) aesthetic appreciation of nature.
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