Elements of environmental ethics in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

Book Iv of Euclid’s Elements and Ancient Greek Mosaics

I.4: “If two triangles have the two sides equal to two sides respectively, and have the angles contained by the equal straight lines equal, they will also have the base equal to the base, the triangle will be equal to the remaining angles respectively, namely those which the equal sides subtend.” I.9: “To bisect a given rectilinear angle.” I.10: “To bisect a given finite straight line.” I.11: “...

Ethics in Ishraq Philosophy

As is known, Ishraq philosophy is of some sorts of mystical teachings. Ishraqi ethics is also a mystical ethics and has taken such a direction that with the help of Ethical Journey may release human from nature’s darkness, mundane attachments and his own alien homesick and to return human to his original homeland. Sheikh Ishraq has recommended some instructions for God seeker’s achievement to p...

Contemporary Environmental Ethics from Metaethics to Public Philosophy Andrew Light

In the past thirty years environmental ethics has emerged as one of the most vibrant and exciting areas of applied philosophy. Several journals and hundreds of books testify to its growing importance inside and outside philosophical circles. But with all of this scholarly output, it is arguably the case that environmental ethics is not living up to its promise of providing a philosophical contr...

Case Attraction in Ancient Greek

Case attraction has stood as a puzzling, and elusive, oddity of older Indo-European languages. This paper focuses on attraction in Ancient Greek, establishing both the regularity of the operation and its underlying motivation. A novel method is proposed for grounding case in terms of a feature-based representation of agentivity properties, loosely based on Dowty’s proto-role theory, but reformu...