Mastery of nature promises and prospects / edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout.

Other author Minkov, Svetozar, 1975-
Other author Trout, Bernhardt L.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Descriptionxiii, 268 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Machiavelli and the discovery of fact / Harvey C. Mansfield -- The place of the treatment of the conquest of nature in Francis Bacon's "On the wisdom of the ancients" / Svetozar Y. Minkov -- Hobbes on nature and its conquest / Devin Stauffer -- Devising nature : an essay on Descartes's discourse on method / Stuart D. Warner -- Montesquieu, commerce, and science / Diana J. Schaub -- Bacon and Franklin on religion and mastery of nature / Jerry Weinberger -- On the supremacy of contemplation in Aristotle and Plato / Robert C. Bartlett -- Xenophon and the conquest of nature / Christopher Nadon -- Lucretius on rebelling against the "laws" of nature / Paul Ludwig -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : return to nature vs. conquest of "Nature" / Arthur Melzer -- Kant on organism and history : ambiguous endings / Richard Velkley -- Beyond the island of truth : Hegel and the shipwreck of "science" / Michael A. Gillespie -- Separating the moral and theological prejudices and taking hold of "human evolution" / Lise van Boxel -- Mastery of nature and its limits : the question of Heidegger / Mark Blitz -- What is natural philosophy? The perspective of contemporary "science" / Adam Schulman -- Quantum mechanics and political philosophy / Bernhardt L. Trout.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and index.
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LCCN 2017032717
ISBN9780812249934 (cloth : acid-free paper)

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