A Natural Perspective

A Natural Perspective
Author: Northrop Frye
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1965
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780231082716

Describes the geography, plants and animals, history, economy, language, religions, culture, and people of the People's Republic of China, home of one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations.

Connecting with Nature

Connecting with Nature
Author: Robert Cyril Stebbins
Publisher: NSTA Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1936959119

This is the story of how one child fell in love with nature and your students can, too. Taking what he calls 'a nature-centered worldview', author Robert Stebbins blends activities, examples, and stories with his perspectives on the importance of dealing objectively yet compassionately with social and environmental problems.

Civilizing Nature

Civilizing Nature
Author: Bernhard Gissibl
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857455273

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.

Nature's Perspectives

Nature's Perspectives
Author: Armen Marsoobian
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791404911

The Experience of Nature

The Experience of Nature
Author: Rachel Kaplan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1989-07-28
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780521349390

The Perspective of Love

The Perspective of Love
Author: Russell J. Snell
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1630873438

While many of the Reformers considered natural law unproblematic, many Protestants consider natural law a "Catholic thing," and not persuasive. Natural law, it is thought, competes with the Gospel, overlooks the centrality of Christ, posits a domain of pure nature, and overlooks the noetic effects of sin. This "Protestant Prejudice," however strong, overlooks developments in contemporary natural law quite capable and willing to incorporate the usual objections into natural law. While the natural law itself is universal and invariant, theories about the natural law vary widely. The Protestant Prejudice may respond to natural law understood from within the modes of common sense and classical metaphysics, but largely overlooks contemporary natural law beginning from the first-person account of subjectivity and practical reason. Consequently, the sophisticated thought of John Paul II, Martin Rhonheimer, Germain Grisez, and John Finnis is overlooked. Further, the work of Bernard Lonergan allows for a natural law admitting of noetic sin, eagerly incorporating grace, community, the limits of history, a real but limited autonomy, and the centrality of Christ in a natural law that is both graced and natural.

Marx and Nature

Marx and Nature
Author: P. Burkett
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1999-02-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0312299656

With Marx and Nature , Paul Burkett reconstructs Marx's approach to nature, society, and environmental crisis. While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx also insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions, including the natural condition of human bodily existence. Marx's value analysis places him squarely in the camp of the growing number of ecological theorists questioning the ability of monetary and market-based calculations to adequately represent the natural conditions of human production and development.

The Past Life Perspective

The Past Life Perspective
Author: Ann Barham
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1501135732

Previously published as: Nine lives (and counting).

Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective

Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective
Author: Lynne Rudder Baker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199914737

Science and its philosophical companion, Naturalism, represent reality in wholly nonpersonal terms. How, if at all, can a nonpersonal scheme accommodate the first-person perspective that we all enjoy? In this volume, Lynne Rudder Baker explores that question by considering both reductive and eliminative approaches to the first-person perspective. After finding both approaches wanting, she mounts an original constructive argument to show that a non-Cartesian first-person perspective belongs in the basic inventory of what exists. That is, the world that contains us persons is irreducibly personal. After arguing for the irreducibilty and ineliminability of the first-person perspective, Baker develops a theory of this perspective. The first-person perspective has two stages, rudimentary and robust. Human infants and nonhuman animals with consciousness and intentionality have rudimentary first-person perspectives. In learning a language, a person acquires a robust first-person perspective: the capacity to conceive of oneself as oneself, in the first person. By developing an account of personal identity, Baker argues that her theory is coherent, and she shows various ways in which first-person perspectives contribute to reality.