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.
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.
Edited by Svetozar Y. Minkov and Bernhardt L. Trout
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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
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
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