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The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Descartes and the Modern Worldview traces the conceptual sources of the present environmental degradation within the worldview of Modernity, and particularly within the thought of René Descartes, universally acclaimed as the father of modern philoso...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kureethadam, Joshtrom Isaac (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Temas:
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650.
Descartes, René, > 1596-1650
Ecology > Philosophy.
Philosophy of nature.
Écologie > Philosophie.
Philosophie de la nature.
Environmentalist thought & ideology.
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900.
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
SCIENCE > Cosmology.
Ecology > Philosophy
Philosophy of nature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis: Descartes and the Modern Worldview traces the conceptual sources of the present environmental degradation within the worldview of Modernity, and particularly within the thought of René Descartes, universally acclaimed as the father of modern philosophy. The book demonstrates how the triple foundations of the Modern worldview - in terms of an exaggerated anthropocentrism, a mechanistic conception of the natural world, and the metaphysical dualism between humanity and the rest of the physical world - can all be largely traced back to Cartesian th.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 395 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-381) and index.
ISBN:9781527512993
1527512991

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