| Description |
x, 230 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Max Oelschlaeger -- Introduction / Laura Westra and Thomas M. Robinson -- 1. Some Ancient Ecological Myths and Metaphors / Anthony Preus -- 2. Why Greek Philosophers Might Have Been Concerned about the Environment / John M. Rist -- 3. The Philosophical Genesis of Ecology and Environmentalism / Daryl McGowan Tress -- 4. Platonic Ecology, Deep Ecology / Timothy A. Mahoney -- 5. Environmental Ethics in Plato's Timaeus / Madonna R. Adams -- 6. The Ecology of the Critias and Platonic Metaphysics / Owen Goldin -- 7. Aristotelian Roots of Ecology: Causality, Complex Systems Theory, and Integrity / Laura Westra -- 8. The Greening of Aristotle / C. W. DeMarco -- 9. Self-Love and the Virtue of Species Preservation in Aristotle / Richard Shearman -- 10. The Organic Unity of Aristotle's World / Mohan Matthen -- 11. Fortitude and Tragedy: The Prospects for a Stoic Environmentalism / Alan J. Holland -- 12. Plotinus as Environmentalist? / Donald N. Blakeley |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index |
| Subject |
Aristotle.
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Plato.
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Environmentalism -- Greece -- History.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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Ecology.
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| Author |
Robinson, T. M.
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Westra, Laura.
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| LC no. |
96039654 |
| ISBN |
0847684458 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0847684466 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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