Human life and the natural world : readings in the history of western philosophy
A collection of readings on the topic of environmental ethics which provides a range of materials from classical times through to the twentieth century.
Print Book, English, cop. 1997
Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ont., cop. 1997
xix, 245 p. ; 23 cm
9781551111070, 1551111071
913100492
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionI. The Ancient WorldXenophonMemorobilia 4.3PlatoTimaeus and CritiasAristotlePhysics, On the Soul, and PoliticsCiceroOn the Nature of the GodsPorphyryOn Abstaining from AnimalsII. Faith and NatureGenesisSt. AugustineSermon 241: “On the Resurrection of Bodies, against the PagansHildegard of Bingen The book of Divine works and The Book of the Rewards of LifeSt. Francis of AssisiCelano: The First Life of St. FrancisSt Bonaventure: Major Life of St. FrancisSt. Thomas AquinasSumma Contra Gentiles and Summa TheologicaIII. Modernity, Mechanism, and the New ScienceFrancis BaconThe New OrganonRené DescartesDiscourse on MethodBaruch SpinozaLetter 32, Spinoza to Henry OldenburgJohn RayThe Wisdom of God Manifested in the CreationJohn LockeSecond Treatise of GovernmentIV. Order, Hierarchy and StruggleCarolus LinnaeusThe Economy of PowerImmanuel KantLectures on Ethics and Critique of JudgmentT.R. MalthusAn Essay on Population as It Affects the future Improvement of SocietyWilliam GodwinOn PopulationPriscilla WakefieldInstinct Displayed in a Collection of Well-Authenticated Facts, Exemplifying the Extraordinary Sagacity of Various Species of the Animal CreationCharles DarwinOn the Origin of Species and The Descent of ManV. Transforming Nature: Progress or Ruin?John Stuart MillNature and Whewell on Moral PhilosophyGeorge Perkins MarshThe Earth as Modified by Human Action: A Last Revision of “Man and Nature”Friedrich Engels“The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man”VI. Living With NatureJean Jacques RousseauThe Reveries of a Solitary WalkerRalph Waldo Emerson“Nature”Henry David Thoreau“Walking”