The papers in this volume defy neat categorization, because the range of topics mirrors one of the Conference's purposes, which was to seek out the relevancy of Greek philosophy with respect to our present-day environmental crisis. Thus the reader will note that scholarly inquiry into Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, Neoplatonic and Pre-Socratic traditions is often matched with exploration of the relationship of these theories to modern environmental philosophies.

The careful treatment of the past is everywhere accompanied with a critical reevaluation of contemporary interpretations of ancient philosophy's treatment of ecological issues. Those who have dismissed the importance of Greek philosophy on these matters, either on the grounds that Greek thinkers were unconcerned with environmental issues or that Greek philosophy is a contributing source to the culture of dominance, will find these textbook commonplaces challenged at every turn. Even more, one will often find novel illumination of well known passages from the works of the Pre-Socratics up to Galen and the Church Fathers that pertain to man's relationship to living and non-being beings, and to the practical question of generating a cooperative ethic towards nature.

This volume will be of value to readers interested in having a better comprehension of the nature of our ecological problems, since the papers address these problems with painstaking scholarship and with a rare attention to the history of the ecological concepts that have been inherited from ancient Greek thinkers.

The value of these papers is best appreciated when read in conjunction with those included in volume two, because then the unity of issues and concerns that comprise the philosophical dialogue between ecological issues with past traditions and specific interpretations and commentaries in the present becomes most useful.

CONTENTS

1. EDITOR' S INTRODUCTION 9

2. JOHN P. ANTON

ARISTOTLE AND THEOPHRASTUS ON ECOLOGY 15

3. DONALD N. BLAKELEY

PLOTINUS AND THE ENVIRONMENT 28

4. GEOFF S. BOWE

A PLATONIC APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 43

5. PHILIPPE CRABBÉ

BIBLICAL AND ANCIENT GREEK THOUGHT ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE LATTER'S CONTINUITY IN THE ECONOMIC LITERATURE UP TO THE PHYSIOCRATS 51

6. WARWICK FOX

DEEP ECOLOGY AND VIRTUE ETHICS 70

7. JOHN GERICKE

DEMOCRACY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY MAKING 78

8. MARTIN GUNDERSON

STOIC PRINCIPLES AND DEEP ECOLOGY 90

9. HELEN KARABATZAKI

ENVIRONMENT IN GALEN'S THOUGHT : SOME CONSIDERATIONS 101

10. TOSHIO KUWAKO

THE POSSIBILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSE IN ARISTOTLE 112

11. KEEKOK LEE

ARISTOTLE : TOWARDS AN ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY 121

12. ANDROS LOIZOU

HARMONY, SELF - TRANSFORMATION AND BEING TOWARDS NATURE: A MEDITATION ON THEMES SUGGESTED BY THE TRIPARTITE PSYCHE IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC 129

13. JUHANI PIETARINEN

PLATO AND BIODIVERSITY 138

14. JEREMIAH REEDY

GREEK THOUGHT AND THE RIGHT TO A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT 146

15. THOMAS M. ROBINSON

THE COSMIC ENVIRONMENT : SOME IMPLICATIONS OF PLATO'S TIMAEUS 155

16. RICHARD SHEARMAN

ARISTOTLE THE ENVIRONMENTALIST ? RECONSIDERING POLITICS I.8 163

17. IOANNIS K. TSENTOS

NATURE AND MAN ACCORDING DIDYMUS THE BLIND 177

18. THEODORE TSOLIS

NATURE AND DECAY : STOIC DETERMINISM AND ITS ECOLOGICAL CONNOTATIONS 188

19. DEBORAH VOSS

NATURE AND TREATMENT OF THE DYING IN THE HIPPOCRATIC CORPUS 196

20. LAURA WESTRA

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FREEDOM AND LIMIT IN ARISTOTLE'S NOTION OF THE GOOD AND THE NEW EARTH CHAPTER 203

21. LISA WILKINSON

XENOPHANES'S RESPECTFUL CONVERSATION WITH NATURE 218

22. ALEKSANDAR H. ZISTAKIS

PLOTINUS AND ECOLOGY : AN AMBIVALENT KINSHIP 227

23. INDEX NOMINUM 250