It’s true that a tourist will never experience the awe that a discoverer would. But is there a solution to this problem? Of course not. Besides, it’s a great thing when a human being has found something or created something beautiful and wants to share it and spread the beauty.
‘Value P’ is a strange way to name this abstract. It makes me want P to stand for something.
Percy almost sounds like a stuck up, gung-ho hiker type to me that abhors campsites that come with outhouses and shops at REI.
I totally disagree that the average tourist can’t appreciate the natural beauty as much as one that would choose the ‘beaten path.’ It depends on the tourist and his or her viewpoint of nature. There could be likewise a hiker that is more concerned with the sport and physical aspect of hiking than the views offered.
Parts of this essay are very wordy and repetitive. Other parts seem extremely pointless. What does this line on Page 477 mean? “The dogfish, the tree, the seashell, the American Negro, the dream, are rendered invisible by a shift of reality from concrete thing to theory which Whitehead has called the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.”
Everyone learns differently and a dissection in a classroom could be just as rewarding or more so than on the beach for someone. I don’t understand his argument.
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