Concepts and practices of democracy (or democratization, because it is a conduct and not necessarily a state), development, and culture overlap thus to define one another. The aesthetics of interacting with the environment, of experiences morphing through art into objects and processes of beauty, constitute the ground for ethical consciousness. Beauty--however we conceive of it (but we always recognize it)--is a way toward accessing ethical values. Conscience flows from consciousness; the other way round would constitute moral dogma.