Mastery of Nature
Promises and Prospects
Herausgeber: Minkov, Svetozar Y; Trout, Bernhardt L
Mastery of Nature
Promises and Prospects
Herausgeber: Minkov, Svetozar Y; Trout, Bernhardt L
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Svetozar Y. Minkov is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University. Bernhardt L. Trout is the Raymond F. Baddour, ScD, (1949) Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Svetozar Y. Minkov is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University. Bernhardt L. Trout is the Raymond F. Baddour, ScD, (1949) Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Produktdetails
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- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780812249934
- ISBN-10: 0812249933
- Artikelnr.: 48955956
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Seitenzahl: 288
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 544g
- ISBN-13: 9780812249934
- ISBN-10: 0812249933
- Artikelnr.: 48955956
Edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout
Preface
—Ralph Lerner
Introduction
—Daniel A. Doneson, Svetozar Y. Minkov, and Bernhardt L. Trout
PART I. THE PROJECT FOR MASTERY
Chapter 1. Machiavelli and the Discovery of Fact
—Harvey C. Mansfield
Chapter 2. The Place of the Treatment of the Conquest of Nature in Francis
Bacon's On the Wisdom of the Ancients
—Svetozar Y. Minkov
Chapter 3. Hobbes on Nature and Its Conquest
—Devin Stauffer
Chapter 4. Devising Nature: An Essay on Descartes's Discourse on Method
—Stuart D. Warner
Chapter 5. Montesquieu, Commerce, and Science
—Diana J. Schaub
Chapter 6. Bacon and Franklin on Religion and Mastery of Nature
—Jerry Weinberger
PART II. ANCIENT ALTERNATIVES AND ANTICIPATIONS
Chapter 7. On the Supremacy of Contemplation in Aristotle and Plato
—Robert C. Bartlett
Chapter 8. Xenophon and the Conquest of Nature
—Christopher Nadon
Chapter 9. Lucretius on Rebelling Against the "Laws" of Nature
—Paul Ludwig
PART III. CONSEQUENCES, CRITIQUES, AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Return to Nature vs. Conquest of Nature
—Arthur Melzer
Chapter 11. Kant on Organism and History: Ambiguous Endings
—Richard Velkley
Chapter 12. Beyond the Island of Truth: Hegel and the Shipwreck of Science
—Michael A. Gillespie
Chapter 13. Separating the Moral and Theological Prejudices and Taking Hold
of Human Evolution
—Lise van Boxel
Chapter 14. Mastery of Nature and Its Limits: The Question of Heidegger
—Mark Blitz
Chapter 15. What Is Natural Philosophy? The Perspective of Contemporary
Science
—Adam Schulman
Chapter 16. Quantum Mechanics and Political Philosophy
—Bernhardt L. Trout
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
—Ralph Lerner
Introduction
—Daniel A. Doneson, Svetozar Y. Minkov, and Bernhardt L. Trout
PART I. THE PROJECT FOR MASTERY
Chapter 1. Machiavelli and the Discovery of Fact
—Harvey C. Mansfield
Chapter 2. The Place of the Treatment of the Conquest of Nature in Francis
Bacon's On the Wisdom of the Ancients
—Svetozar Y. Minkov
Chapter 3. Hobbes on Nature and Its Conquest
—Devin Stauffer
Chapter 4. Devising Nature: An Essay on Descartes's Discourse on Method
—Stuart D. Warner
Chapter 5. Montesquieu, Commerce, and Science
—Diana J. Schaub
Chapter 6. Bacon and Franklin on Religion and Mastery of Nature
—Jerry Weinberger
PART II. ANCIENT ALTERNATIVES AND ANTICIPATIONS
Chapter 7. On the Supremacy of Contemplation in Aristotle and Plato
—Robert C. Bartlett
Chapter 8. Xenophon and the Conquest of Nature
—Christopher Nadon
Chapter 9. Lucretius on Rebelling Against the "Laws" of Nature
—Paul Ludwig
PART III. CONSEQUENCES, CRITIQUES, AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Return to Nature vs. Conquest of Nature
—Arthur Melzer
Chapter 11. Kant on Organism and History: Ambiguous Endings
—Richard Velkley
Chapter 12. Beyond the Island of Truth: Hegel and the Shipwreck of Science
—Michael A. Gillespie
Chapter 13. Separating the Moral and Theological Prejudices and Taking Hold
of Human Evolution
—Lise van Boxel
Chapter 14. Mastery of Nature and Its Limits: The Question of Heidegger
—Mark Blitz
Chapter 15. What Is Natural Philosophy? The Perspective of Contemporary
Science
—Adam Schulman
Chapter 16. Quantum Mechanics and Political Philosophy
—Bernhardt L. Trout
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Preface
—Ralph Lerner
Introduction
—Daniel A. Doneson, Svetozar Y. Minkov, and Bernhardt L. Trout
PART I. THE PROJECT FOR MASTERY
Chapter 1. Machiavelli and the Discovery of Fact
—Harvey C. Mansfield
Chapter 2. The Place of the Treatment of the Conquest of Nature in Francis
Bacon's On the Wisdom of the Ancients
—Svetozar Y. Minkov
Chapter 3. Hobbes on Nature and Its Conquest
—Devin Stauffer
Chapter 4. Devising Nature: An Essay on Descartes's Discourse on Method
—Stuart D. Warner
Chapter 5. Montesquieu, Commerce, and Science
—Diana J. Schaub
Chapter 6. Bacon and Franklin on Religion and Mastery of Nature
—Jerry Weinberger
PART II. ANCIENT ALTERNATIVES AND ANTICIPATIONS
Chapter 7. On the Supremacy of Contemplation in Aristotle and Plato
—Robert C. Bartlett
Chapter 8. Xenophon and the Conquest of Nature
—Christopher Nadon
Chapter 9. Lucretius on Rebelling Against the "Laws" of Nature
—Paul Ludwig
PART III. CONSEQUENCES, CRITIQUES, AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Return to Nature vs. Conquest of Nature
—Arthur Melzer
Chapter 11. Kant on Organism and History: Ambiguous Endings
—Richard Velkley
Chapter 12. Beyond the Island of Truth: Hegel and the Shipwreck of Science
—Michael A. Gillespie
Chapter 13. Separating the Moral and Theological Prejudices and Taking Hold
of Human Evolution
—Lise van Boxel
Chapter 14. Mastery of Nature and Its Limits: The Question of Heidegger
—Mark Blitz
Chapter 15. What Is Natural Philosophy? The Perspective of Contemporary
Science
—Adam Schulman
Chapter 16. Quantum Mechanics and Political Philosophy
—Bernhardt L. Trout
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
—Ralph Lerner
Introduction
—Daniel A. Doneson, Svetozar Y. Minkov, and Bernhardt L. Trout
PART I. THE PROJECT FOR MASTERY
Chapter 1. Machiavelli and the Discovery of Fact
—Harvey C. Mansfield
Chapter 2. The Place of the Treatment of the Conquest of Nature in Francis
Bacon's On the Wisdom of the Ancients
—Svetozar Y. Minkov
Chapter 3. Hobbes on Nature and Its Conquest
—Devin Stauffer
Chapter 4. Devising Nature: An Essay on Descartes's Discourse on Method
—Stuart D. Warner
Chapter 5. Montesquieu, Commerce, and Science
—Diana J. Schaub
Chapter 6. Bacon and Franklin on Religion and Mastery of Nature
—Jerry Weinberger
PART II. ANCIENT ALTERNATIVES AND ANTICIPATIONS
Chapter 7. On the Supremacy of Contemplation in Aristotle and Plato
—Robert C. Bartlett
Chapter 8. Xenophon and the Conquest of Nature
—Christopher Nadon
Chapter 9. Lucretius on Rebelling Against the "Laws" of Nature
—Paul Ludwig
PART III. CONSEQUENCES, CRITIQUES, AND CORRECTIONS
Chapter 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Return to Nature vs. Conquest of Nature
—Arthur Melzer
Chapter 11. Kant on Organism and History: Ambiguous Endings
—Richard Velkley
Chapter 12. Beyond the Island of Truth: Hegel and the Shipwreck of Science
—Michael A. Gillespie
Chapter 13. Separating the Moral and Theological Prejudices and Taking Hold
of Human Evolution
—Lise van Boxel
Chapter 14. Mastery of Nature and Its Limits: The Question of Heidegger
—Mark Blitz
Chapter 15. What Is Natural Philosophy? The Perspective of Contemporary
Science
—Adam Schulman
Chapter 16. Quantum Mechanics and Political Philosophy
—Bernhardt L. Trout
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments