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When one looks at the history of philosophy one notices immediately how, especially within the so-called philosophy of nature, the concept of nature changes, how it evolves in time, constantly changing its meaning.
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Bill McKibben, The End of Nature New York: Random House, 1989, pp. 60, 89.
Ibid., p. 210.
Roderick Nash, Wilderness and the American Mind New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1974, p. 5.
Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethics Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988, p. 99.
Mark Sagoff, “On Preserving the Natural Environment,” Yale Law Journal 84 (1974), p. 245.
John Passmore, Man’s Responsibility for Nature London: Duckworth, 1974, p. 101.
Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights London and New York: Routledge, 1983, p. 81.
Ibid., p. 329.
Rolston, op. cit., p. 99.
Passmore, op. cit., p. 43.
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex. New York: Hill, 1904, p. 107.
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac New York: Ballantine Books, 1990, p. 261.
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Pyra, L. (2002). Nature as the Source of Life. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Life Energies, Forces and the Shaping of Life: Vital, Existential. Analecta Husserliana, vol 74. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0417-6_24
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