Voices of the Earth: An Anthology of Ideas and ArgumentsA unique collection of readings conveying the enormous range of discussions and debates which, over the centuries, have questioned our place within and treatment of the natural world. The extracts chosen cover both Western and non-Western traditions of thought, and represent a diverse range of sources, including writers, theologians, scientists, poets and philosophers, from the early Hindu scriptures to Sartre. The extracts have been chosen for their accessibility for the modern reader, and the volume includes a comprehensive introduction outlining the issues involved, and commentaries which put the individual texts in context. The extracts in this book raise fundamental questions about our relationship with the world we live in, and will inform current concerns about the environmental crises we are facing. Fascinating reading, and an indispensable source of reference. |
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Page 94
... Laws of Nature ; though being once form'd , it may continue by those Laws for many Ages . For while Comets move in very excentrick Orbs in all manner of Positions , blind Fate could never make all the Planets move one and the same way ...
... Laws of Nature ; though being once form'd , it may continue by those Laws for many Ages . For while Comets move in very excentrick Orbs in all manner of Positions , blind Fate could never make all the Planets move one and the same way ...
Page 98
... laws of the appetites or the final causes of good and evil , which consist in the observable perceptions , regulated or unregulated - in the same way as the changes of bodies and of external phenomena spring from one another according ...
... laws of the appetites or the final causes of good and evil , which consist in the observable perceptions , regulated or unregulated - in the same way as the changes of bodies and of external phenomena spring from one another according ...
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... law , it will be beautiful ; if of the violation of a natural law , it will be ugly . For instance , a sapphire is ... laws of growth in trees , and we ought to feel it SO . Now then , I proceed to argue in this manner from what we see ...
... law , it will be beautiful ; if of the violation of a natural law , it will be ugly . For instance , a sapphire is ... laws of growth in trees , and we ought to feel it SO . Now then , I proceed to argue in this manner from what we see ...
Contents
NonEuropean Traditions | 17 |
The Classical World | 28 |
The JudaeoChristian | 43 |
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