Philosophy shows that there is no difference in principle between scientific, moral and aesthetic appreciation.
Pullman's appreciation for moral seriousness in fiction has made him deeply frustrated with adult contemporary literature.
But earthquakes and mosquitoes are the easy cases; the harder cases are children and psychopaths, individuals who haven't (or haven't yet) developed an understanding of or an appreciation for moral norms.
Like the basic modes of motivational orientation themselves, evaluative standards can be classified by the same threefold structure, that is, by cognitive standards (norms of truth), cathectic standards (norms of appreciation) and moral standards (norms of accepted behaviour) which can be formulated as alternatives of decision making.
Nature has no intrinsic worth other than man's appreciation and moral use of it".
Much as trying to make sense of one square millimeter of the Mona Lisa must necessarily limit our ability to see "the big picture," so must cherry-picking certain preferred moral practices thwart our appreciation of the context from which they were drawn.
In Burkina Faso motivation was understood to be a multi-faceted concept, spanning financial, verbal (appreciation) and moral, intrinsic aspects.
In Britain and Germany especially, the moral implications inherent in the appreciation of natural or artistic beauty tended to outweigh aesthetic considerations.
He concludes with no thundering moral judgments but rather an appreciation of how difficult the question is, of whether to work for something better within the system or to leave it.
But his embrace of details was allied to an instinctive understanding of the larger picture, great personal courage, historical insight based on his constant reading, and, above all, perhaps, an appreciation of the moral and psychological dimensions of command and government.
