TY  - BOOK
AU  - Usher, M. D.
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - Plato's pigs and other ruminations: ancient guides to living with nature
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Philosophy, Ancient
KW  - Environmental ethics
KW  - Philosophy of nature
KW  - Plato
AB  - The Greeks and Romans have been charged with destroying the ecosystems within which they lived. In this book, however, M. D. Usher argues rather that we can find in their lives and thought the origin of modern ideas about systems and sustainability, important topics for humans today and in the future. With chapters running the gamut of Greek and Roman experience - from the Presocratics and Plato to Roman agronomy and the Benedictine Rule - Plato's Pigs brings together unlikely bedfellows, both ancient and modern, to reveal surprising connections. Lively prose and liberal use of anecdotal detail, including an afterword about the author's own experiments with sustainable living on his sheep farm in Vermont, add a strong authorial voice. In short, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind book that is sure to be of interest to anyone working in Classics, environmental studies, philosophy, ecology, or the history of ideas.
SN  - 9781108884518
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108884518
DO  - 10.1017/9781108884518
LA  - English
N1  - M. D. Usher
ID  - 1736007254
ER  -