| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 314 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series,
0929-8436 ;
v. 185
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Value inquiry book series ; v. 185.
0929-8436
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and indexes. |
| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Foreword / Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec -- Preface / Tadeusz Kwiatkowski -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1, Rise of theoretical knowledge -- 1. Discovery of science : Greece or the East? -- 2. Why the Greeks? -- 3. Bios Theoretikos -- 4. Philosophy's rise from sensations to wisdom -- 5. Knowledge and opinion -- 6. Theoretical features of the object of scientific cognition -- 7. Theoretical justification -- 8. Theoretical proof -- 9. Types of science -- pt. 2. Hellenistic deformation of theoretical knowledge -- 10. Knowledge or philosophy for the sake of praxis -- 1. Stoic modifications to philosophy -- 2. Stoic understanding of philosophy -- 3. Divisions of philosophy -- 4. Leading science : ethics or physics? -- 5. Logic as a science -- 6. Consequences of the stoic understanding of philosophy -- 11. Neo-Platonism : an end beyond knowledge -- 1. From philosophy to mysticism in Polotinus -- 2. Theurgy in place of philosophy (Iamblichus). |
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pt. 3. Philosophy and theology in relation to revelation -- 12. Aversion to pagan authority -- 13. Handmaiden to theology -- 14. Sacred Scripture and the problem of interpretation : the Sentences -- 15. Metaphysics and natural theology -- 16. Philosophy in the service of theology -- pt. 4. Science : toward technology and ideology -- 17. Problem of the continuity of science in the Middle Ages -- 18. Problem of experimental science in the Middle Ages -- 1. Utility -- 2. Experiment -- 3. Inventions -- 19. Mathematization of scientific knowledge -- 20. Influence of nominalism. |
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pt. 5. Science as technology -- 21. Quest for an Earthly paradise -- 22. End of knowledge : complete utilitarianism -- 23. Influence of the East -- 1. Hermeticism -- 2. Cabala -- 24. Science and utopia : from the House of Solomon to the royal Society -- 25. A new model of scientific knowledge -- 1. Science without causes? -- 2. Induction : from first premises to the syllogism -- 3. Experience and the discovery of nature's secrets -- 4. Discovery and marvels -- 26. Philosophy and gnosticism -- 1. What is gnosticism? -- 2. Way of salvation -- 3. Gnosticism and German idealism. |
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pt. 6. Transformation of philosophy into ideology -- 27. Ideas -- concepts -- impressions -- 28. War against idols -- 29. Critique of Catholicism and metaphysics -- 30. Ideology and the new social order -- 31. Ideology : the evolution of the concept -- pt. 7. Toward a new world order -- 32. Kant : the world before reason's tribunal -- 33. Auguste Comte : toward a new age -- 34. Neopositivism at war with metaphysics -- 35. Science and the new world order or Science in the service of globalism -- pt. 8. Place of science in culture -- 36. What is culture? -- 37. Domains of culture -- 38. Ends, limits, and directions in the growth of science -- 39. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the author -- Index of works -- Index of authors, editors, and translators -- Index of subjects -- Index of names. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Social aspects.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Science and civilization.
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Science and civilization. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jaroszyński, Piotr. Science in culture. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007 9789042021365 9042021365 (OCoLC)123126174 |
| ISBN |
9781429481250 (electronic book) |
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1429481250 (electronic book) |
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9789042021365 (paperback) |
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9042021365 (paperback) |
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