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Author Kratochvíl, Zdeněk, 1952- author.

Title The philosophy of living nature / Zdeněk Kratochvíl ; translated by Václav Paris.

Publication Info. [Prague] : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, [2016]

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Contents Cover; Contents; 1. The philosophical concept of nature-physis. The traditionally problematic quality of natural philosophy. The decline and resurgence of a sense for physis; 2. Individual nature. Physis. A thing as a grasping of physis. The subsoil of phenomena and things. The constitution of things. Things in the world. Things and matter, space, time. Knowledge and reduction. Exemplary entities
7. The structuring of time. Memory. Horai (Hors, hours), rhythms and periods. Bearing, sequentiality. Causality and synchronicity. Knowing the past and foreseeing the new. The devastation of time8. Evolution-why it tends to be a scandal. Its mechanomorphic reduction. In search of the ontology for which evolution is not scandalous. Bearing into the unknown; 9. Living beings-organisms, metabole, self-reference; unity in transformation
Between chaos and order. The relation to the whole as the openness of the living to the world. A living being as an autonomic whole searching for its own identity in transformation. The secret of sex, mortality and individuality10. The problem of the knowability of the living. Reducing the living by releasing its soul. The ingraspability of life, which itself grasps. The devastation of life. Life and being; 11. Paradigms-their bounds and transformations. Ancient models-the archetype of the soul. Modernity-the age of the ruling paradigm. Reductionism
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Subject Philosophy of nature.
Philosophy of nature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Paris, Václav, translator.
Added Title Filosofie živé přírody. English
Other Form: Print version: Philosophy of Living Nature. [Place of publication not identified] : Karolinum 2016 9788024631318 (OCoLC)921866065
ISBN 9788024631332 (electronic book)
8024631334 (electronic book)
9788024631318
8024631318