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Human life and the natural world : readings in the history of Western philosophy

Title
Human life and the natural world : readings in the history of Western philosophy / edited by Owen Goldin and Patricia Kilroe.
Publication
Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press ; Hadleigh : B.R.A.D Book Representation & Distribution, ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Goldin, Owen, 1957-
  • Kilroe, Patricia.
Description
xix, 245 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Environmental ethics > History > Sources
  • Human ecology > Philosophy
  • Environmental ethics > History
  • Environmental ethics
  • Geschichte
  • Humanökologie
  • Quelle
  • Umweltethik
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Sources.
Contents
Introduction -- Part I. Ancient world. Xenophon -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Cicero -- Porphyry -- Part II. Faith and nature. Genesis -- St. Augustine -- Hildegard of Bingen -- St. Francis of Assissi -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- Part III. Modernity, mechanism, and the new science. Francis Bacon -- Rene Descartes -- Baruch Spinoza -- John Ray -- John Locke -- Part IV. Order, hierarchy and struggle. Carolus Linnaeus -- Immanuel Kant -- T.R. Malthus -- William Godwin -- Priscilla Wakefield -- Charles Darwin -- Part V. Transforming nature: progress or ruin?. John Stuart Mill -- George Perkins Marsh -- Friedrich Engels -- Part VI. Living with nature. Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Henry David Thoreau.
ISBN
  • 1551111071
  • 9781551111070
OCLC
  • ocm39962840
  • 39962840
  • SCSB-1339209
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library