Key Thinkers on the Environmentis a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer Cooper and David E. Cooper, themselves distinguished authors on environmental matters, have assembled a team of expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of diverse and stimulating figures from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are:
- philosophers such as Rousseau, Kant, Spinoza and Heidegger
- activists such as Chico Mendes and Wangari Maathai
- literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth
- major religious and spiritual figures such as Buddha and St Francis of Assissi
eminent scientists such as Darwin, Lovelock and E.O. Wilson.
Lucid, scholarly and informative, the essays contained within this volume offer a fascinating overview of humankinds view and understanding of the natural world.
Contents
Alphabetical list of contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Confucius, 479-551 BCE
Yue Zhuang
Buddha, fifth century bce
Purushottama Bilimoria
Zhuangzi, c.370-c.286 bce
David E. Cooper
Aristotle, 384322 bce
David E. Cooper
Virgil, 7019 bce
Philip R. Hardie
Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181/21226
Andrew Linzey and Ara Barsam
Wang Yang-ming, 14721528
T. Yamauchi
Michel de Montaigne, 153392
Ann Moss
Francis Bacon, 15611626
Paul S. MacDonaldl/