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Plato's revenge : politics in the age of ecology / William Ophuls.

Summary:

Provides a wide-ranging review of history, philosophy, science, and political economy in search of natural law and objective value by which to replenish the "lode of fossil virtue and belief" inherited from the premodern era and depleted by modern nihilism.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780262015905
  • ISBN: 0262015900
  • ISBN: 9780262525282
  • ISBN: 0262525283
  • Physical Description: xiv, 256 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue : The five great ills -- THE NECESSITY OF NATURAL LAW: Law and virtue -- THE SOURCES OF NATURAL LAW: Ecology -- Physics -- Psychology -- THE POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Paideia -- Politeia -- A more experienced and wiser savage -- Epilogue : True liberation.
Subject:
Environmental policy.
Political science > Philosophy.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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