Bøger af Peter Marshall

Exploring our strengths and possibilities, this work seeks to present the ideas and values needed to ride the winds of change in the new millennium. It provides a philosophy for a new era, called liberation ecology, a vision which combines ancient wisdom and modern insights.

In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his times than in the exercise of his immense power.

Providing an overview of the intellectual roots of the worldwide environmental movement - from ancient religions and philosophies to modern science and ethics - this book synthesises them into a new philosophy of nature in which to ground our moral values and social action.