ABSTRACT
The theory outlines how the structure and dynamics of place can help or hinder our attempts to be good. Here I want to focus especially on the role of boundedness and boundaries, for they encapsulate the effects of many of these dynamics, and because they join neatly with the psychological process of compartmentalization. The boundary of place can connect and disconnect, making us part of, and apart from, the world. I will explore these relationships and their moral implications mostly at the personal or psychological level. I will refer to this geographical boundedness as compartmentalization because the term is also used to describe building boundaries in our minds.
