ABSTRACT
In his Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, Franz Brentano employed the idea of intentionality as a way of distinguishing consciousness from the merely physical. In this sense, consciousness, also, is ineluctably worldly – and hence, we can say, environmental. The life of consciousness is sustained by the things that appear to it: its being consists in its participation in a relationship to the being of the things that appear to it. Environmental psychologists make the point that selfhood is seriously conditioned by sense of place and hence that human beings are fundamentally geographical beings. In sum, the author uses the term “anticipation” to identify something that is central to the openness of environmental consciousness: it is its anticipation of otherness that constitutes such consciousness as an emplaced transcendence that is each individual’s own receptiveness to the world – its kind of waiting upon, its own attentiveness to, the other.
