Down to Earth: persons in natural history: part 1 (original) (raw)

Abstract

Lecture covers the following topics: Ethics living in place; Earth as home planet; Aristotle and humans as political animals, living in cities, humans as both citizens of cities and residences on landscapes; correcting Socrates (who thought that nature could not teach him anything); living on Western landscapes with "nature in your face": four priorities on the current world agenda (peace and war, population, development, environment); escalating population; and escalating consumption (affluenza).