Science in CultureRodopi, 2007 - 314 pages This book tries to uncover science's discoverer and explain why the conception of science has been changing during the centuries, and why science can be beneficial and dangerous for humanity. Far from being hermetic, this research can be interesting for all who want to understand deeper what really conditions the place of science in culture. |
Contents
FOUR | 17 |
FIVE | 23 |
SEVEN | 37 |
EIGHT | 43 |
THE HELLENISTIC DEFORMATION OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE | 51 |
ELEVEN | 67 |
Part Three | 75 |
THIRTEEN | 83 |
TWENTYSIX Philosophy and Gnosticism | 165 |
Part | 175 |
TWENTYEIGHT The War against Idols | 183 |
The Evolution of the Concept | 189 |
The World Before Reasons Tribunal | 193 |
Toward a New Age | 199 |
THIRTYFOUR Neopositivism at War with Metaphysics | 205 |
THIRTYSIX What is Culture? | 219 |
FIFTEEN | 93 |
SEVENTEEN | 103 |
EIGHTEEN | 109 |
NINETEEN | 117 |
TWENTYONE The Quest for an Earthly Paradise | 129 |
TWENTYTHREE The Influence of the East | 139 |
From the House of Solomon | 149 |
TWENTYFIVE A New Model of Scientific Knowledge | 157 |
THIRTYEIGHT Ends Limits and Directions in | 227 |
Notes | 233 |
Bibliography | 259 |
About the Author | 275 |
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Science in Culture: Translated from the Polish by Hugh McDonald Piotr Jaroszyński Limited preview - 2007 |
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Page 9 - Europe are full of spirit, but wanting in intelligence and skill ; and therefore they keep their freedom, but have no political organization, and are incapable of ruling over others. Whereas the natives of Asia are intelligent and inventive, but they are wanting in spirit, and therefore they are always in a state of subjection and slavery.