Elemental philosophy : earth, air, fire, and water as elemental ideas /

"Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought." Earth, air, fire, and water are explored as both philosophical ideas and environmental issues associated with thei...

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Main Author: Macauley, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.
Series:SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Philosophy's forgotten four
  • The topology of the elemental environment
  • The flowering of ecological roots : Empedocles's elemental thought
  • Plato's chora-graphy of earth, air, fire, and water
  • The place of the elements of place : Aristotle's natural household
  • The economy and ecology of the Aristotelian elements
  • Domestication of the elements
  • In touch with the sensuous world : the reclamation of the elemental in continental philosophy
  • Revaluing earth, air, fire, and water : elemental beauty, ecological duty, and environmental policy.