ABSTRACT

This chapter insists on the remark that the imposition of norms, regulating social praxis through aesthetic indications, has been crucial in shaping aspects for landscape, related either to landscape perception or to landscape formations and constructions. The remark that imposition of ethical suggestions may correspond to imposition of aesthetic indications formulates the starting concept of the present chapter. This remark suggests that during the seventeenth century, geometry participates in the doctrine of rationalism as a founding theory element. The guidance of ethical aspirations, even the validity of the proof of divinity, can be based on verifiable and consistent recommendations, on proposals as strictly structured, as the reasonably controlled, deductive geometric theorems. In the context of the philosopher's personal interest, a substantial ethical shift occurred, describing his move from a destructive use of reason, associated with his military education and his military activity, to a utilitarian innovative prospect.