PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Ancient Greek and Hebrew Ideas of Ecological Politics
Fall 2017 PEI Faculty Seminar Series – 12/5/2017: Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, Director of the University Center for Human Values
Lane explored how politics — in historical reality, in political theory and in philosophical imagery — mediated between ecology and theology in the ancient world, and how they shaped human involvement with nature. In ancient thought, politics were a deliberate and integral step toward understanding and addressing environmental and ecological issues.
PEI Faculty Seminar Series: Ancient Greek and Hebrew Ideas of Ecological Politics
Publish Date
December 5, 2017
Presenter(s)
Melissa Lane
Link to Video
Video Length
00:55:24