Book cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introductory remarks; 1 Atomism and its ideological implications; 2 Geometrodynamics: a monistic metaphysic; 3 System and substance: alternative principles of individuation; 4 Value in nature and meaning in life; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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This is the first book-length treatment of the metaphysical foundations of ecological ethics. The author seeks to provide a metaphysical illumination of the fundamental ecological intuitions that we are in some sense `one with' nature and that everything is connected with everything else. Drawing on contemporary cosmology, systems theory and the history of philosophy, Freya Mathews elaborates a new metaphysics of `interconnectedness'. She offers an inspiring vision of the spiritual implications of ecology, which leads to a deepening of our conception of conservation.