Abstract
In this article, I consider how ancient Greek philosophical thinking might be
approached differently if the environmental ethical import that is salient in it is critically
considered. After pointing out how environmental ethics is generally construed in much
of the discourse on current philosophical thinking, I spell out some unexplored
elements of environmental ethical thinking that are implicit in ancient Greek
philosophy. In the end, I challenge some common notions in Western
environmentalism that take environmental ethics as a fairly new discourse of the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Ultimately, I suggest that ancient Greek
philosophical thinking ought to be judiciously interpreted from an environmental ethical
perspective.