I was in the country for three weeks, surrounded by beauty of weather and landscape, and now I am shut in again, in the city. My surroundings have changed, but I still feel like the same person. Only it must matter, what surrounds a person; over time it must matter. At odd moments, one is influenced. The tone of one's life is changed.
It strikes me that the word "surround" has little ethical use: what surrounds you? With what do you surround yourself? What kinds of surroundings do you build? What resistance do you put up to your surroundings?
We haven't in some ways said more than the first words in ethics, though a great deal is known viscerally.
Posted by shea0017 at June 21, 2004 3:57 PM