Human Life and the Natural World

by Goldin, Owen; Kilroe, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9781551111070
• ISBN10: 1551111071
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Broadview Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(4)
Acknowledgments	xiii	(2)
Introduction	xv
1. The Ancient World	3	(64)
Xenophon
1. Memorabilia 4.3	3	(6)
Plato
2. Timaeus and Critias	9	(8)
Aristotle
3. Physics, On the Soul, and Politics	17	(18)
Cicero
4. On the Nature of the Gods	35	(10)
Porphyry
5. On Abstaining from Animals	45	(22)
II. Faith and Nature	67	(40)
6. Genesis	67	(8)
St. Augustine
7. Sermon 241: "On the Resurrection of Bodies, against the Pagans"	75	(6)
Hildegard of Bingen
8. The Book of Divine Works and The Book of the Rewards of Life	81	(6)
St. Francis of Assisi
9. Celano: The First Life of St. Francis	87	(4)
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Bonaventure: Major Life of St. Francis
St. Thomas Aquinas
10. Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica	91	(16)
III. Modernity, Mechanism, and the New Science	107	(38)
Francis Bacon
11. The New Organon	107	(12)
Rene Descartes
12. Discourse on Method	119	(6)
Baruch Spinoza
13. Letter 32, Spinoza to Henry Oldenburg	125	(4)
John Ray
14. The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Creation	129	(4)
John Locke
15. Second Treatise of Government	133	(12)
IV. Order, Hierarchy and Struggle	145	(42)
Carolus Linnaeus
16. The Economy of Nature	145	(6)
Immanuel Kant
17. Lectures on Ethics and Critique of Judgment	151	(14)
T.R. Malthus
18. An Essay on Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society	165	(4)
William Godwin
19. On Population	169	(4)
Priscilla Wakefield
20. Instinct Displayed in a Collection of Well-Authenticated Facts, Exemplifying the Extraordinary Sagacity of Various Species of the Animal Creation	173	(2)
Charles Darwin
21. On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man	175	(12)
V. Transforming Nature: Progress or Ruin?	187	(30)
John Stuart Mill
22. Nature and Whewell on Moral Philosophy	187	(14)
George Perkins Marsh
23. The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A Last Revision of "Man and Nature"	201	(6)
Friedrich Engels
24. "The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man"	207	(10)
VI. Living with Nature	217
Jean Jacques Rousseau
25. The Reveries of a Solitary Walker	217	(8)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. "Nature"	225	(14)
Henry David Thoreau
27. "Walking"	239