ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the aspects of the workings of place-its structure and dynamics and its relationship to space-that both types of judgments use, though differently. It begins with descriptions of the threads and how different places help produce different weaves or fabrics, and discusses the core of the loom's mechanisms. The chapter focuses on how place also help to weave together the empirical elements of meaning, social relations, and nature, and discusses the connections between the moral and the empirical. It focuses on how intrinsic and instrumental judgments differ. The loomlike qualities of place make things interdependent because place helps weave together and affects what takes place, including moral judgment. An unjust economic system may have led to unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and need. The solar system, with its forces and energies, and a good deal of the natural processes of the earth, are part of this external nature.
