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The geographic problematic: Moral issues

Pages 117-125 | Published online: 05 Nov 2010
 

The geographic problematic stems from the fact that we cannot accept reality as it is and so we create places to transform reality into what we think it ought to be, and then transform this new reality, and so on. This paper assumes an understanding of the power of place as an instrument in transforming the world, and explores how the ought in the problematic is formed, how it is a moral issue that leads to a geographic theory of morality. This theory argues that it is good to create places that increase our capacities to see reality more clearly, and that also increase the variety and complexity of that reality. Using this as a precept or guide to our place-making will encourage care for distant others and lead to a political-economy of altruism.

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