Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought : Essays in Environmental Philosophy

by Callicott, J. Baird; Ames, Roger T.

• ISBN13: 9780887069512
• ISBN10: 0887069517
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-05-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Foreword	xiii
Eugene C. Hargrove
Introduction: The Asian Traditions as a Conceptual Resource for Environmental Philosophy	1	(24)
J. Baird Callicott
Roger T. Ames
I The Ecological World View: A Basis for Engagement
Pacific Shift	25	(12)
William Irwin Thompson
Biology as a Cosmological Science	37	(14)
Harold J. Morowitz
The Metaphysical Implications of Ecology	51	(16)
J. Baird Callicott
II The Chinese World View
The Continuity of Being: Chinese Visions of Nature	67	(12)
Tu Wei-ming
Human/Nature in Nietzsche and Taoism	79	(20)
Graham Parkes
On Seeking a Change of Environment	99	(14)
David L. Hall
Putting the Te back into Taoism	113	(32)
Roger T. Ames
Units of Change--Units of Value	145	(8)
Robert C. Neville
III The Japanese World View
The Japanese Concept of ``Nature''	153	(10)
Hubertus Tellenbach
Bin Kimura
The Japanese Experience of Nature	163	(20)
David Edward Shaner
Saigyo and the Buddhist Value of Nature	183	(30)
William R. LaFleur
IV The Buddhist World View
The Jewel Net of Indra	213	(18)
Francis H. Cook
Environmental Problematics	231	(16)
Kenneth K. Inada
Toward a Middle Path of Survival	247	(12)
David J. Kalupahana
V The Indian World View
A Metaphysical Grounding for Natural Reverence: East-West	259	(8)
Eliot Deutsch
``Conceptual Resources'' in South Asia for ``Environmental Ethics''	267	(12)
Gerald James Larson
Epilogue: On the Relation of Idea and Action	279	(12)
J. Baird Callicott
Roger T. Ames
Notes	291	(34)
Index	325