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This text consists, in Part One, of 14 philosophical essays about nature and human nature: classical Greek and modern West, natural and supernatural, myth and imagination, Taoist, Buddhist and Christian, scientific and ethical. In Part Two there are ten papers by Erazim Kohak, for whom the book is a celebration. These are selected to present Kohak's seminal approach to understanding men and women living in societies within their natural environment. The focus of the book is on philosophical ecology: Whose nature? which morality? and on Kohak's feeling for a ""moral sense of Nature"". The authors are Klaus Brinkmann, Stanley Rosen, David Eckel, Livia Kohn, Alfred Tauber, Lawrence Cahoone, Tienyu Cao, Robert Neville, Abner Shimony, Alan Olson, Alfred Ferrarin, Krzysztof Michalski and Stephen Scully. There is a full bibliography of Erazim Kohak, now Professor of Philosophy at the Charles University, Prague, and emeritus at Boston University. This text is designed to appeal widely to social ethics groups (sociology, and religious organizations), existentialists and phenomenological programs, historians of ideas in general and of ethics in particular, science and society centers, and women's studies.

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Author:   Robert S. Cohen ,  A.I. Tauber
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1998 ed.
Volume:   195
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.490kg
ISBN:  

9780792345794

ISBN 10:   0792345797
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   30 November 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. The Symposium.- The natural and the supernatural in human nature: Hegel on the soul.- Whose nature? Which morality? On Kohák’s moral sense of nature.- Whose nature? Which morality? A response.- Monism, but not through reductionism.- Is there a Buddhist philosophy of nature?.- Aristotelian and Newtonian models in Hegel’s philosophy of nature.- Yin and yang: the natural dimension of evil.- Human nature and the nature of time: a Nietzschean metaphor and its consequences.- The contingency of nature.- Theological reflections on the nature of nature: revolution, reformation, restoration.- Remarks on human nature in Plato.- The nature of the gods and early Greek poetic thought.- The relationship between physics and philosophy.- Ecology and the claims for a science-based ethics.- II. Selected Essays of Erazim Kohák.- Phenomenology and ecology: dependence and co-dependency.- Human rights and nature’s rightness.- Transcendental experience, everyday philosophy.- Should auld acquaintance be forgot ...?.- Varieties of ecological experience.- Nature as presence and experience.- The true and the good: reflections on the primacy of practical reason.- The ecological dilemma: ethical categories in a biocentric world.- Creation’s orphans: toward a metaphysics of artifacts.- III.- Erazim Kohák: Bibliography.- Index of Names.

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