ABSTRACT
We are place-makers who transform the earth. This is our geographic condition, and understanding it sheds light on who we are as moral agents. As framed by the problematic, it becomes the process of not being able to accept reality as it is and to continuously create places to transform it into what we think it ought to be. The ought is where the moral enters. The ought ought to be inspired by an intimation of the good. Even though the good is ultimately ineffable, facets of it can be made more accessible through intrinsic judgments which claim that we ought to create places that jointly increase our awareness of reality, and increase the variety and complexity of reality.
