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 Info | Philadelphia : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] |
| Description | xiii, 268 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017032717 |
| ISBN | 9780812249934 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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