[lbo-talk] Reverence for nature modern?

Chris Brooke chris.brooke at magdalen.oxford.ac.uk
Sat Sep 6 09:02:00 PDT 2003


At a guess you're thinking of John Stuart Mill, "On Nature", an 1874 essay, available here:

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/philosophy/texts/mill_on.htm

Chris

On 5/9/03 6:19 pm, "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Can't help, sorry.
>
> --- lweiger at umich.edu wrote:

Luke wrote:


>> 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



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