Philosophy and the climate crisis : how the past can save the present /
This book explores how the history of philosophy can orient us to the new reality brought on by the climate crisis. If we understand the climate crisis as a deeply existential one, it can help to examine the way past philosophers responded to similar crises in their times. This book explores five pa...
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
[2021]
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| Series: | Routledge environmental ethics
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Disorientation. In praise of bewilderment
- Foundationsb: God and nature
- The shape of our crisis
- Part II: Five intellectual innovations. Plato : epistocracy
- Augustine : love
- Descartes : the technosphere
- Spinoza : diversity in unity
- Hegel : rights
- Part III: Reorientation. Anthropocene monism.