BOUDOURIS K. & KALIMTZIS K. (EDITORS ) PHILOSOPHY AND ECOLOGY , VOL. II , IONIA PUBLICATIONS, ATHENS 1999, pp. 256

The papers included in this volume defy neat categorization, because the range of topics mirrors one of the Conference's purposes, which was to seek out the relevancy of Greek philosophy with respect to our present- day environmental crisis. Thus the reader will note that scholarly inquiry into Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, Neoplatonic and Pre-Socratic traditions is often matched with exploration of the relationship of these theories to modern environmental philosophies.

The careful treatment of the past is everywhere accompanied with a critical reevaluation of contemporary interpretations of ancient philosophy's treatment of ecological issues. Those who have dismissed the importance of Greek philosophy on these matters, either on the grounds that Greek thinkers were unconcerned with environmental issues or that Greek philosophy is a contributing source to the culture of dominance, will find these textbook commonplaces challenged at every turn. Even more, one will often find novel illumination of well known passages from the works of the Pre-Socratics up to Galen and the Church Fathers that pertain to man's relationship to living and non-being beings, and to the practical question of generating a cooperative ethic towards nature.

Undoubtedly the reader of these articles has a lot to profit from. They definitely help in the general effort - which has to be intensified - for the proper evaluation of the ideas and theories of the past and their value for the present, for the many-sided view of the complex ecological issues and for the charting of ways out of the dead-end in which we have come to through our unforgivable mistakes and spiritual and mental blindness.

This volume will be of value to readers interested in having a better comprehension of the nature of our ecological problems, since the papers address these problems with painstaking scholarship and with a rare attention to the history of the ecological concepts that have been inherited from ancient Greek thinkers.

The value of these papers is best appreciated when read in conjunction with those included in volume one, because then the unity of issues and concerns that comprise the philosophical dialogue between ecological issues with past traditions and specific interpretations and commentaries in the present becomes most useful.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION 9
2. THEONI ANASTASSOPOULOU - KAPOGIANNI
THE NOTION OF DIFFERENCE AND THE PRINCIPLE OF RESPONSIBILITY : PRECONDITIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS 15
3. SVEN ARNTZEN
IS PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE A SOURCE OF MAN - NATURE DUALISM ? 22
4. G. BOGER
ARISTOTLE ON THE INTENTION AND EXTENSION OF PERSON AND THE FOCAL CONCERN OF ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 32
5. KONSTANTINE BOUDOURIS
THE MORAL, POLITICAL AND METAPHYSICAL CAUSES OF THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS 59
6. EMILIOS BOURATINOS
NATURE, CIVILISATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS 73
7. G. S. BOWE
NATURE AND VALUE : SOME HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY RELFECTIONS 85
8. WARWICK FOX
ETHICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT : RETHINKING THE FOUNDATIONS OF VALUE 97
9. KIRK W. JUNKER
READING NATURE THROUGH THE LAW 106
10. DIMITRIS N. LAMBRELLIS
MARCUSE ON NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 121
11. JOAN LEACH
LOCATION IN XENOPHON : THE OIKOS AND THE OECONOMICUS 130
12. KEEKOK LEE
ANTHROPOCENTRISM : ITS ROOTS IN MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND ITS INVOLVEMENT WITH MODERN SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY 138
13. ANTONY MCMICHAEL
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND HUMAN HEALTH: CLASSICAL AND MODERN PERCEPTIONS 145
14. VITOMIR MITEVSKI
DISCOVERY OF HARMONY IN THE NATURE IN EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY 159
15. JOHN O 'NEILL AND VERNON PRATT
ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS AND POST - ARISTOTELIAN BIOLOGY 165
16. JOHN POULAKOS
THE PHYSIS - NOMOS DEBATE AND THE MODERN DISCOURSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT 180
17. RICHARD PURTILL & LILIA CHERBAKOVA CASTLE
THE BASIS OF OUR ENVIRONMENTAL OBLIGATIONS 186
18. SERGIA ROSSETTI FAVENTO
THE APPROACH OF THE GREEK MAN TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD 192
19. T. P. TASSIOS
MORAL - POLITICAL ISSUES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 198
20. EVANGELINE J. TSIBRIS
ECONOMIC VALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES : NEED FOR ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 207
21. JOANNE WAUGH
FLESH AND SPACE AND STONE : THE VIRTUOUS EVNIRONMENT OF THE ATHENIAN POLIS 213
21. HIDEYA YAMAKAWA
THE ENVIRONMENT AS THE PLACE OF LIFE : PRESOCRATIC'S VIEWPOINT 225
23. ALEXANDAR H. ZISTAKIS
CULTURE AND NATURE : HOW CULTURE DETERMINES OUR CONCEPTION OF NATURE 239
24. INDEX NOMINUM 250