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Description

Environmental ethicists have frequently criticized ancient Greek philosophy as anti-environmental for a view of philosophy that is counterproductive to environmental ethics and a view of the world that puts nature at the disposal of people. This provocative collection of original essays reexamines the views of nature and ecology found in the thought of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and Plotinus. Recognizing that these thinkers were not confronted with the environmental degradation that threatens contemporary philosophers, the contributors to this book find that the Greeks nevertheless provide an excellent foundation for a sound theory of environmentalism.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Part 2 Part I: Overview
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Some Ancient Ecological Myths and Metaphors
Chapter 5 Why Greek Philosophers Might Have Been Concerned about the Environment
Chapter 6 The Philosophical Genesis of Ecology and Environmentalism
Part 7 Part II: Plato
Chapter 8 Platonic Ecology
Chapter 9 Environmental Ethics in Plato's Timaeus
Chapter 10 The Ecology of the Critias and Platonic metaphysics
Part 11 Part III: Aristotle
Chapter 12 Aristotelian Roots of Ecology: Causality, Complex Systems Theory, and Integrity
Chapter 13 The Greening of Aristotle
Chapter 14 Self-Love and the Virtue of Species Preservation in Aristotle
Chapter 15 The Organic Unity of Aristotle's World
Part 16 Part IV: Greek Philosophy After Aristotle
Chapter 17 Fortitude and Tragedy: The Prospects for a Stoic Environmentalism
Chapter 18 Plotinus as Environmentalist?
Chapter 19 Notes
Chapter 20 Index

Product details

Published Apr 30 1997
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9780847684465
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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