--On Friday, September 05, 2003 9:55 AM -0700 joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote:
> Chris or Maria wrote?
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> From: "Maria Gilmore" <mgilmore at bigzoo.net>
> >
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> Reverence for nature I think is pretty much a modern thing.
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> Say what????
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> Joanna
Yeah, I believe there was at least one school of Hellinistic philosophy that had a nature fetish. Although the fetish endures to this day, I think Mill did a pretty good job of showing it's without rational foundation (I can't which work of Mill's it was; perhaps Justin can).
-- Luke