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1 online resource (xi, 395 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-381) and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Ecology -- Philosophy.
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Ecology -- Philosophy. |
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Philosophy of nature.
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Philosophy of nature. |
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Environmentalist thought & ideology. |
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Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900. |
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Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology. |
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SCIENCE -- Cosmology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Descartes and the modern worldview |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Kureethadam, Joshtrom Isaac. Philosophical roots of the ecological crisis. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1527503437 (OCoLC)1007552146 |
| ISBN |
9781527512993 (electronic book) |
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1527512991 (electronic book) |
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1527503437 |
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9781527503434 |
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