Human Life and the Natural World: Readings in the History of Western Philosophy

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Owen Goldin, Patricia Kilroe
Broadview Press, 1997 M04 7 - 268 páginas

Human concern over the urgency of current environmental issues increasingly entails wide-ranging discussions of how we may rethink the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world. In order to provide a context for such discussions this anthology provides a selection of some of the most important, interesting and influential readings on the subject from classical times through to the late nineteenth century. Included are such figures as Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Hildegard of Bingen, St Francis of Assisi, Bacon, Descartes, Kant, Mill, Emerson and Thoreau. As the collection as a whole amply demonstrates, the history of western philosophical accounts of nature can help us to better understand current attitudes and problems. Human Life and the Natural World may also be of interest to a broad range of philosophers and students of philosophy, and more generally to those with a concern for the environment that engages the intellect as well as the heart.

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Aristotle
17
Cicero
35
Porphyry
61
Genesis
67
St Augustine
75
Hildegard of Bingen
81
St Francis of Assisi
87
Francis Bacon
107
John Locke
133
Carolus Linnaeus
145
John Stuart Mill
187
George Perkins Marsh
201
Friedrich Engels
207
Jean Jacques Rousseau
217
Ralph Waldo Emerson
225
Henry David Thoreau
239

René Descartes
119
Baruch Spinoza
125

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Owen Goldin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Marquette University.

Patricia Kilroe teaches in the Anthropology and Linguistics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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