Ecocide
Published on 15. September 2023
480 pages
978-1-5289-8027-2 (ISBN)
Description
How'Sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll'in ancient Athens enteredChristianity.How Plato's mental bias wrecksour ecology and our mental health.In this remarkable and well researched book, Dr John Wilson, a down-to-earth psychiatrist, breaks new ground. He shows how classical Greek civilization, still the foundation of Western culture, splits our minds from our bodies. Splitting us also from physical health, from mental health, and from our natural environment. In this sixth 'Mass Extinction Event', Plato's legacy is now becoming fatal.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part One
- Origins
- Ancient Africa
- Ancient Egypt
- The Aryans
- Ancient Greece
- The Mysteries
- Elusinian Mysteries
- Dionysus
- Orphism
- Psyche
- Nature
- Part Two
- Before Plato
- Judaism
- Homer
- Thales
- Anaximander
- Pythagoras
- Xenophanes
- Heraclitus
- A Watershed
- Parmenides
- Anaxagoras
- Pericles
- Empedocles
- Herodotus
- Part Three
- Plato
- Plato's Life
- The Academy
- The Symposium
- The Soul
- Abstraction
- Critique
- Applause
- Atlantis and the Soul
- False Premiss
- Geometry
- Logic
- Rhetoric
- The Music
- Hypnotic
- Spell Broken
- Falsehoods
- Abstractions
- Narcissism
- Bullying
- Sparta
- Right Wing
- Censorship
- Women
- Inconstant
- The Arguments
- Reductionism
- Dualism
- Plagiarism
- Psychology
- Insecurity
- Fear
- Sex
- Socrates
- Revenge
- Narcissism
- Control
- Anger
- Right Wing
- Obsessional
- Psychology of the Soul
- Motivations
- Power
- Part Four
- After Plato
- Aristotle
- Epicurus
- The stoics
- Cicero
- Philo
- St John
- St Paul
- Origen
- Plotinus
- Part Five
- Constantine
- The Army
- Constantine
- The Early Church
- Scepticism
- Sol Invictus
- Manichaeism
- Zoroastrianism
- Mithraism
- The Great Mother
- Pan
- Christianity
- Nicaea
- Part Six
- The Established Church
- St Gregory of Nyssa
- St Chrysostom
- St Ambrose
- St Augustine of Hippo
- Boethius
- The Medieval Period
- Charlemagne
- St Thomas Aquinas
- Bruno
- Hegel
- Islam
- The Church Militant
- Part Seven
- Soul in the Arts
- Orpheus
- Homer
- Dante
- Donne
- Milton
- Goethe
- Blake
- Wordsworth
- Keats
- Mary Shelly
- Browning
- Tennyson
- DH Lawrence
- AD Hope
- Part Eight
- The Enlightenment
- Bacon
- Galileo
- Harvey
- Descartes
- Newton
- Rousseau
- Darwin
- Nietzsche
- Freud and Jung
- Part Nine
- Modern Views
- Weber
- Whitehead
- Dawkins
- Science
- Dennett
- The Christos
- Rosetta Stone
- Existentialism
- Sartre
- De Beauvoir
- Pollan
- Dataism
- The Self
- Popular Views
- Logic
- Science
- Agency
- Composite
- Inconstant
- Context
- Relational
- Complexity
- Bundle
- The Brain
- Implications
- Part Ten
- Conclusion
- Sources
- Notes
