Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension : In Celebration of Erazim Kohák

Philosophical understandings of Nature and Human Nature. Classical Greek and modern West, Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, by 14 authors, including Robert Neville, Stanley Rosen, David Eckel, Livia Kohn, Tienyu Cao, Abner Shimoney, Alfred Tauber, Krzysztof Michalski, Lawrence Cahoone, Stephen Scully, Alan Olson and Alfred Ferrarin. Dedicated to the phenomenological ecology of Erazim Kohák, with 10 of his essays and a full bibliography. Overall theme: on the question of the moral sense of nature. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Natural and the Supernatural in Human Nature: Hegel on the Soul....Pages 3-18 Whose Nature? Which Morality? On Kohák’s Moral Sense of Nature....Pages 19-33 “Whose Nature? Which Morality? A Response....Pages 35-37 Monism, but not through Reductionism....Pages 39-51 Is There a Buddhist Philosophy of Nature?....Pages 53-69 Aristotelian and Newtonian Models in Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature....Pages 71-89 Yin and Yang: The Natural Dimension of Evil....Pages 91-105 Human Nature and the Nature of Time: A Nietzschean Metaphor and Its Consequences....Pages 107-119 The Contingency of Nature....Pages 121-137 Theological Reflections on the Nature of Nature: Revolution, Reformation, Restoration....Pages 139-149 Remarks on Human Nature in Plato....Pages 151-162 The Nature of the Gods in Early Greek Poetic Thought....Pages 163-176 The Relationship between Physics and Philosophy....Pages 177-184 Ecology and the Claims for a Science-Based Ethics....Pages 185-206 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 Phenomenology and Ecology: Dependence and Co-Dependency....Pages 209-219 Human Rights and Nature’s Rightness....Pages 221-230 Transcendental Experience, Everyday Philosophy....Pages 231-247 Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot...?....Pages 249-256 Varieties of Ecological Experience....Pages 257-271 Nature as Presence and Experience....Pages 273-284 Front Matter....Pages 207-207 The True and the Good: Reflections on the Primacy of Practical Reason....Pages 285-291 The Ecological Dilemma: Ethical Categories in a Biocentric World....Pages 293-301 Creation’s Orphans: Toward a Metaphysics of Artifacts....Pages 303-314 Back Matter....Pages 315-334

Philosophical understandings of Nature and Human Nature. Classical Greek and modern West, Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, by 14 authors, including Robert Neville, Stanley Rosen, David Eckel, Livia Kohn, Tienyu Cao, Abner Shimoney, Alfred Tauber, Krzysztof Michalski, Lawrence Cahoone, Stephen Scully, Alan Olson and Alfred Ferrarin. Dedicated to the phenomenological ecology of Erazim Kohák, with 10 of his essays and a full bibliography. Overall theme: on the question of the moral sense of nature.