Val Plumwood
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Val Plumwood was an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her work on anthropocentrism. From the 1970s, she played a central role in the development of radical ecosophy. Working mostly as a
Plumwood in 1990
Plumwood and Sean Kenan, 1987
Plumwood, fourth from the left, 2004, at the home she built with Richard Sylvan near Plumwood Mountain
Plumwood (right) and Sky Kidd, 2007
Heraclitus
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Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, both ancient and modern, through
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…crocodile attack in 1985, first described in her essay "Being Prey" (1996). The experience offered her a glimpse of the world "from the outside", a "Heraclitean universe" in which she was food like any other creature. It was a world that was indifferent to her and would continue without her, where "being in…
Bust No 3. of the Hall of Philosophers, Capitoline Museum, identified as Heraclitus
Theater in Ephesus on the coast of Asia Minor, birthplace of Heraclitus
A modern miniature model of the Ephesian Temple of Artemis, located in modern Istanbul. According to Diogenes Laertius, Heraclitus deposited his book in the temple.
Heraclitus's writing style has been compared to a sibyl, as depicted here by Domenichino.