Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension In Celebration of Erazim

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BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Editor

ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKYt (Co-editor 1960-1997)

Editorial Advisory Board

THOMAS F. GLICK, Boston University ADOLF GRUNBAUM, University of Pittsburgh SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University

VOLUME 195

Erazim Kohak, 1997

PHILOSOPHIES OF NATURE: THE HUMAN DIMENSION In Celebration of Erazim Kohak Edited by ROBERTS. COHEN Boston University and ALFRED I. TAUBER Boston University

With a complete bibiliography of Erazim Kohllk's works

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SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 978-90-481-4859-2 ISBN 978-94-017-2614-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2614-6

Printed on acid-free paper

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Origin of the Essays by Erazim Kobak

ix

PREFACE I RobertS. Cohen

xi xiii

INTRODUCTION I Vladimir Zeman I.

THE SYMPOSIUM

KLAUS BRINKMANN I The natural and the supernatural in human nature: Hegel on the soul

3

LAWRENCE CAHOONE I Whose nature? Which morality? On Kobak's moral sense of nature

19

ERAZIM KOHAK I Whose nature? Which morality? A response

35

TIAN YU CAO I Monism, but not through reductionism

39

MALCOLM DAVID ECKEL I Is there a Buddhist philosophy of nature?

53

ALFREDO FERRARIN I Aristotelian and Newtonian models in Hegel's philosophy of nature

71

LIVIA KOHN I Yin and yang: the natural dimension of evil

91

KRZYSZTOF MICHALSKI I Human nature and the nature of time: a Nietzschean metaphor and its consequences

107

ROBERT CUMMINGS NEVILLE I The contingency of nature

121

ALAN M. OLSON I Theological reflections on the nature of nature: revolution, reformation, restoration

139

STANLEY ROSEN I Remarks on human nature in Plato

151

STEPHEN SCULLY I The nature of the gods and early Greek poetic thought

163

ABNER SHIMONYI The relationship between physics and philosophy

177

ALFRED I. TAUBER I Ecology and the claims for a science-based 185 ethics Vll

viii

TABLE OF CONTENTS II.

SELECTED ESSAYS OF ERAZIM KOHAK

Phenomenology and ecology: dependence and co-dependency

209

Human rights and nature's rightness

221

Transcendental experience, everyday philosophy

231

Should auld acquaintance be forgot ... ?

249

Varieties of ecological experience

257

Nature as presence and experience

273

The true and the good: reflections on the primacy of practical reason

285

The ecological dilemma: ethical categories in a biocentric world

293

Creation's orphans: toward a metaphysics of artifacts

303

III.

Erazim Kobak: Bibliography

315

Index of Names

327

ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS BY ERAZIM KOHAK

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