II. the other side of ecology in ancient Greece: Comments on Hughes

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The classical roots of ecological sensibility lie not only in the “theatre of reason” (Greek nature philosophy and natural history), but also in religious mythology. More important than the world seen as the “theatre of the gods”, however, was the radically ecological view of death stated in mythic form by Empedocles and the Pythagoreans. The very emergence of the “theatre of reason” marked a significant stage of man's alienation from nature (and from himself), though the struggle between rationalistic anthropocentrism and a more ecological perspective reappeared within philosophy itself, so that the legacy of “the Philosopher” is a dual one.

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