TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Plato's pigs and other ruminations : ancient guides to living with nature
A1  - Usher, M. D. 1966- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5477510
AB  - The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience - from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule - Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas
SN  - 9781108839587 sidottu
KW  - Plato.
KW  - Platon, : 427-347 f.Kr.
KW  - Naturfilosofi
KW  - Antikens filosofi
KW  - Miljöetik
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient.
KW  - Environmental ethics.
KW  - Philosophy of nature.
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Environmental ethics
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
ER  -