The idea of nature /
| Основен автор: | Collingwood, R. G. 1889-1943. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
1945.
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Online version::
Idea of nature. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction. Science and philosophy
- Greek view of nature
- Renaissance view of nature
- Modern view of nature
- Consequences of this view
- PART I. GREEK COSMOLOGY. I. The Ionians. The Ionian science of nature. Thales, Anaximander. Anaximenes
- Limites of Ionian natural science
- Meaning of the world nature
- II. The Pythagoreans. Pythagoras
- Plato : the theory of forms. Reality and intelligibility of the forms. Forms conceived frist as immanent; later as transcendent. Was the transcendence of the forms a Platonic conception? Participation and imitation. The Parmenides. Immanence and transcendence imply one another. The influence of Cratylus. The influence of Parmenides. Plato's mature conception of the forms
- Plato's cosmology : the Timaeus
- III. Aristotle. Meaning of ovois
- Nature as self-moving
- Aristotle's theory of knowledge
- Aristotle's theology
- Plurality of unmoved movers
- Matter
- PART II. THE RENAISSANCE VIEW OF NATURE. I. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Anti-Aristotelianism
- Renaissance cosmology : first stage
- Copernicus
- Renaissance cosmology : second stage. Giordano Bruno
- Bacon
- Gilbert and Kepler
- Galileo
- JMind and matter. Materialism
- Spinoza
- Newton
- Leibniz
- Summary : contrast between Greek and Renaissance cosmology
- II. The eighteenth century. Berkeley
- Kant
- PART III. HEGEL : THE TRANSITION TO THE MODERN VIEW OF NATURE. I. The concept of life. Evolutionary biology
- Bergson
- II. Modern physics. Old theory of matter
- Its complications and inconsistencies
- New theory of matter
- finitude of nature
- III. Modern cosmology. Alexander
- Whitehead
- Conclusion : from nature to history.