[lbo-talk] Reverence for nature modern?

[Chris Doss]

>Yeah, I believe there was at least one school of
>Hellinistic philosophy that had a nature fetish. > -- Luke
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Which one? The Stoics?
Nature for the Stoics meant the divine order, not trees and oceans and 
stuff.
Nature was viewed by the Greeks as hostile, generally. But they of course 
lived in a society in which "nature" meant wolves, disease and earthquakes, 
not pretty sunsets.

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