This thesis will involve an examination of Enlightenment notions of humans and nature, and how these have been embedded in modern human activities. The thesis will focus on the key theories arising from: Hobbes and the materialists; Descartes and the dualists; and Newton and the classical economists. Particular ideas, concerning the natural philosophy of Descartes and Hobbes, and the physics of Newton and its impact on classical and neoclassical economists, will be examined. A broad historical trajectory of their ideas, and their influence, will be traced through time to today. The example of livestock agriculture, focussing on the practice of factory farming, will be used as a tangible example of the ways in which certain conceptions of hu...
The emergence of the public abattoir in 19th century Europe brought about a radical shift in animal ...
It is broadly recognized that the modern technological civilization was made possible on the basis ...
It is a fact about human beings, Maurice Godelier has insisted, that alone among animals, they ‘prod...
Society’s current experience of nature is ambiguous. Just as nature proves severely affected by huma...
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between important intellectual discourses of the late-se...
Organic farming originally deals with the problematic nature/technique within a holistic view. The o...
We live in an era of crises. One of them, the ecological crisis, arose from the fact that the human ...
This paper will explore ideologies of nature including the ‘Garden of Eden’ and ‘wildernesses’. It l...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the link in th...
We live in an era of crises. One of them, the ecological crisis, arose from the fact that the human...
In this paper we try to identify the roots of the persistent contemporary problems in our modernized...
The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of hum...
Though ecology is a relatively new field of study, the human relationship to nature has shifted and ...
Ethical naturalism is an ethical theory that holds that practical norms are a species of natural nor...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1998 Dr. Malcolm J. IvesThrough agriculture, humans have ...
The emergence of the public abattoir in 19th century Europe brought about a radical shift in animal ...
It is broadly recognized that the modern technological civilization was made possible on the basis ...
It is a fact about human beings, Maurice Godelier has insisted, that alone among animals, they ‘prod...
Society’s current experience of nature is ambiguous. Just as nature proves severely affected by huma...
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between important intellectual discourses of the late-se...
Organic farming originally deals with the problematic nature/technique within a holistic view. The o...
We live in an era of crises. One of them, the ecological crisis, arose from the fact that the human ...
This paper will explore ideologies of nature including the ‘Garden of Eden’ and ‘wildernesses’. It l...
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Wiley via the link in th...
We live in an era of crises. One of them, the ecological crisis, arose from the fact that the human...
In this paper we try to identify the roots of the persistent contemporary problems in our modernized...
The ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of hum...
Though ecology is a relatively new field of study, the human relationship to nature has shifted and ...
Ethical naturalism is an ethical theory that holds that practical norms are a species of natural nor...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 1998 Dr. Malcolm J. IvesThrough agriculture, humans have ...
The emergence of the public abattoir in 19th century Europe brought about a radical shift in animal ...
It is broadly recognized that the modern technological civilization was made possible on the basis ...
It is a fact about human beings, Maurice Godelier has insisted, that alone among animals, they ‘prod...