BOUDOURIS K. & KALIMTZIS K. (EDITORS), PHILOSOPHY AND ECOLOGY VOL. I, IONIA PUBLICATIONS, ATHENS 1999, pp. 256.
The papers in this volume defy neat categorization, because the range of topics mirrors one of the Conference's purposes, which was to seek out the relevancy of Greek philosophy with respect to our present-day environmental crisis. Thus the reader will note that scholarly inquiry into Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, Neoplatonic and Pre-Socratic traditions is often matched with exploration of the relationship of these theories to modern environmental philosophies.
The careful treatment of the past is everywhere accompanied with a critical reevaluation of contemporary interpretations of ancient philosophy's treatment of ecological issues. Those who have dismissed the importance of Greek philosophy on these matters, either on the grounds that Greek thinkers were unconcerned with environmental issues or that Greek philosophy is a contributing source to the culture of dominance, will find these textbook commonplaces challenged at every turn. Even more, one will often find novel illumination of well known passages from the works of the Pre-Socratics up to Galen and the Church Fathers that pertain to man's relationship to living and non-being beings, and to the practical question of generating a cooperative ethic towards nature.
This volume will be of value to readers interested in having a better comprehension of the nature of our ecological problems, since the papers address these problems with painstaking scholarship and with a rare attention to the history of the ecological concepts that have been inherited from ancient Greek thinkers.
The value of these papers is best appreciated when read in conjunction with those included in volume two, because then the unity of issues and concerns that comprise the philosophical dialogue between ecological issues with past traditions and specific interpretations and commentaries in the present becomes most useful.
CONTENTS
- 1. EDITOR' S INTRODUCTION 9
- 2. JOHN P. ANTON
- ARISTOTLE AND THEOPHRASTUS ON ECOLOGY 15
- 3. DONALD N. BLAKELEY
- PLOTINUS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 28
- 4. GEOFF S. BOWE
- A PLATONIC APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 43
- 5. PHILIPPE CRABB�
- BIBLICAL AND ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE LATTER'S CONTINUITY IN THE ECONOMIC LITERATURE UP TO THE PHYSIOCRATS 51
- 6. WARWICK FOX
- DEEP ECOLOGY AND VIRTUE ETHICS 70
- 7. JOHN GERICKE
- DEMOCRACY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY MAKING 78
- 8. MARTIN GUNDERSON
- STOIC PRINCIPLES AND DEEP ECOLOGY 90
- 9. HELEN KARABATZAKI
- ENVIRONMENT IN GALEN'S THOUGHT : SOME CONSIDERATIONS 101
- 10. TOSHIO KUWAKO
- THE POSSIBILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE IN ARISTOTLE 112
- 11. KEEKOK LEE
- ARISTOTLE : TOWARDS AN ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 121
- 12. ANDROS LOIZOU
- HARMONY, SELF - TRANSFORMATION AND BEING TOWARDS NATURE: A MEDITATION ON THEMES SUGGESTED BY THE TRIPARTITE PSYCHE IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC 129
- 13. JUHANI PIETARINEN
- PLATO AND BIODIVERSITY 138
- 14. JEREMIAH REEDY
- GREEK THOUGHT AND THE RIGHT TO A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT 146
- 15. THOMAS M. ROBINSON
- THE COSMIC ENVIRONMENT : SOME IMPLICATIONS OF PLATO'S TIMAEUS 155
- 16. RICHARD SHEARMAN
- ARISTOTLE THE ENVIRONMENTALIST ? RECONSIDERING POLITICS I.8 163
- 17. IOANNIS K. TSENTOS
- NATURE AND MAN ACCORDING DIDYMUS THE BLIND 177
- 18. THEODORE TSOLIS
- NATURE AND DECAY : STOIC DETERMINISM AND ITS ECOLOGICAL CONNOTATIONS 188
- 19. DEBORAH VOSS
- NATURE AND TREATMENT OF THE DYING IN THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS 196
- 20. LAURA WESTRA
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FREEDOM AND LIMIT IN ARISTOTLE'S NOTION OF THE GOOD AND THE NEW EARTH CHAPTER 203
- 21. LISA WILKINSON
- XENOPHANES'S RESPECTFUL CONVERSATION WITH NATURE 218
- 22. ALEKSANDAR H. ZISTAKIS
- PLOTINUS AND ECOLOGY : AN AMBIVALENT KINSHIP 227
- 23. INDEX NOMINUM 250