Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension

Philosophical understandings of Nature and Human Nature. Classical Greek and modern West, Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, by 14 authors, including Robert Neville, Stanley Rosen, David Eckel, Livia Kohn, Tienyu Cao, Abner Shimoney, Alfred Tauber, Krzysztof Michalski, Lawrence Cahoone, Stephen Scully, Alan Olson and Alfred Ferrarin. Dedicated to the phenomenological ecology of Erazim Kohák, with 10 of his essays and a full bibliography. Overall theme: on the question of the moral sense of nature.

Inhalt
I. The Symposium.- The natural and the supernatural in human nature: Hegel on the soul.- Whose nature? Which morality? On Kohák's moral sense of nature.- Whose nature? Which morality? A response.- Monism, but not through reductionism.- Is there a Buddhist philosophy of nature?.- Aristotelian and Newtonian models in Hegel's philosophy of nature.- Yin and yang: the natural dimension of evil.- Human nature and the nature of time: a Nietzschean metaphor and its consequences.- The contingency of nature.- Theological reflections on the nature of nature: revolution, reformation, restoration.- Remarks on human nature in Plato.- The nature of the gods and early Greek poetic thought.- The relationship between physics and philosophy.- Ecology and the claims for a science-based ethics.- II. Selected Essays of Erazim Kohák.- Phenomenology and ecology: dependence and co-dependency.- Human rights and nature's rightness.- Transcendental experience, everyday philosophy.- Should auld acquaintance be forgot ...?.- Varieties of ecological experience.- Nature as presence and experience.- The true and the good: reflections on the primacy of practical reason.- The ecological dilemma: ethical categories in a biocentric world.- Creation's orphans: toward a metaphysics of artifacts.- III.- Erazim Kohák: Bibliography.- Index of Names.