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Bioethical Inseparability of Human Being and Nature – Example: Mountaineering

That man is a part of nature, and inseparably connected with it, seems to be a self-evident fact. On the other hand, it is too often pointed out that it is a matter of romanticism and not the factual situation. Moreover, there is talk of utopian efforts to "return to nature" at a time when it seems that man has completely distanced himself from his natural environment and, with that distance, entered a dangerous form of "ecological alienation". In this lecture, I will show that natural sports marvellously show that this inseparability still exists at all levels. Specifically, using the example of mountaineering, I point out that there is: 1) ontological inseparability with regard to the specific form of interaction of mountaineers with a natural feature (primarily the mountain environment) ; 2) epistemological inseparability with regard to the cruciality of expanding experiences as a basis for mountaineering growth and maturation on the way to higher levels of this natural sport (toward alpinism as a kind of mountaineering ideal) ; 3) ethical inseparability, which primarily refers to the normative requirements of mountaineering, which implies an extremely high and demanding degree of normativity which, in addition to other human and non-human living beings, also takes into account the entire mountain landscape, i.e. inanimate nature as an object of protection, worship/esteem and care. Mountaineering is thus imposed not only as a natural sport but as a complex ethos that necessarily contains a bioethical worldview.

bioethics, nature sports, mountaineering, ontology (of mountaineering), epistemology (of mountaineering), ethics (of mountaineering)

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