“Even the Worms…”
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Bathurst, Ralph J
Chen, Sitong Michelle
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In this paper, we explore Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Singapore’s Cloud Forest; two artefacts that heighten an awareness of life forms beneath the earth’s surface. We take a line from Fredrich Schiller’s poem Ode to Joy—“even the worms find sensuality”—and demonstrate its profundity through Beethoven’s landmark composition. Singapore’s Cloud Forest acts as a foil in our advocacy for an aesth-ethical consideration of the hitherto silenced voices of flora and fauna, noting a turn from misanthropic, revengeful tendencies, to a philanthropic call for generous inclusion. Our analytic method explores looking sideways as a means of bringing disparate artefacts into a polyphonic examination. We explore these works through a process ethics lens, operationalizing A. N. Whitehead’s process philosophy. To conclude we propose four ethical responses of lamenting, acting, reflecting, and expressing joy without borders.
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1503 Business and Management, 1505 Marketing, 2201 Applied Ethics, 5001 Applied ethics, Anthropocene, Creativity, Process ethics, Theology
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Journal of Business Ethics, ISSN: 0167-4544 (Print); 1573-0697 (Online), Springer Science and Business Media LLC. doi: 10.1007/s10551-026-06417-2
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