Nature Loves To Hide An Alternative History Of Philosophy

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Nature Loves to Hide: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Author : Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359197906
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Nature Loves to Hide: An Alternative History of Philosophy written by Paul S. MacDonald and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history of philosophy has endured as a shadowy parallel to standard histories, although it shares many of the same themes. It has its own founding texts in the late ancient Hermetica, from whence flowed three broad streams of thought: alchemy, astrology, and magic. These thinkers' attitude toward philosophy is not one of detached speculation but of active engagement, even intervention. It appeared again in the European Middle Ages, in the Renaissance with Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Ficino, and Bruno; and in the early modern period with John Dee, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhme, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, van Helmont, and Isaac Newton. In the 18th-19th centuries, this book considers Lichtenberg's Fragments, Berkeley's Siris, Swedenborg, Hegel, von Baader, and great Romantics such as Novalis, Goethe, S. T. Coleridge, and E. A. Poe, as well as Nietzsche; and in the 20th century it turns to the great modernist literature of Fernando Pessoa, Robert Musil, Ernst Bloch, and P. K. Dick.

The Veil of Isis

Author : Pierre Hadot
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674023161
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book The Veil of Isis written by Pierre Hadot and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of this engaging study by Pierre Hadot. Taking the allegorical figure of the veiled goddess Isis as a guide, and drawing on the work of both the ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, Hadot traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Over time, Hadot finds, "Nature loves to hide" has meant that all that lives tends to die; that Nature wraps herself in myths; and (for Heidegger) that Being unveils as it veils itself. Meanwhile the pronouncement has been used to explain everything from the opacity of the natural world to our modern angst. From these kaleidoscopic exegeses and usages emerge two contradictory approaches to nature: the Promethean, or experimental-questing, approach, which embraces technology as a means of tearing the veil from Nature and revealing her secrets; and the Orphic, or contemplative-poetic, approach, according to which such a denuding of Nature is a grave trespass. In place of these two attitudes Hadot proposes one suggested by the Romantic vision of Rousseau, Goethe, and Schelling, who saw in the veiled Isis an allegorical expression of the sublime. "Nature is art and art is nature," Hadot writes, inviting us to embrace Isis and all she represents: art makes us intensely aware of how completely we ourselves are not merely surrounded by nature but also part of nature.

The Concept of Nature

Author : Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486438996
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Concept of Nature written by Alfred North Whitehead and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant mathematician explores the problems of substance, space, and time; criticizes Einstein's method of interpreting results; and offers an alternative theory of the four-dimensional space-time manifold. 1920 edition.

Nature, History, and Existentialism

Author : Karl Löwith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810101456
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Nature, History, and Existentialism written by Karl Löwith and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophy of Nature

Author : Andreas Gerardus Maria Van Melsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258329112
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Nature written by Andreas Gerardus Maria Van Melsen and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Human Nature

Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183031
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book On Human Nature written by Roger Scruton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant’s suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say “I”—by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning. And it lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy, even though it is a natural and not a supernatural fact. Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live. The result is a rich view of human nature that challenges some of today’s most fashionable ideas about our species.

Routledge History of Philosophy Volume I

Author : C. C. W. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134924461
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Routledge History of Philosophy Volume I written by C. C. W. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of the Routledge History of Philosophy covers one of the most remarkable periods in human thought. In the space of two and a half centuries, philosophy developed from quasi-mythological speculation to a state in which many of the most fundamental questions about the universe, the mind and human conduct had been vigorously pursued, and some of the most enduring masterworks of Western thought had been written. The essays present the fundamental approaches and thinkers of Greek philosophy in chronological order. Each is written by a recognised authority in the particular field, and takes account of the large amount of high-quality work done in the last few decades on Platonic and pre-Platonic philosophy. All write in an accessible style, meeting the needs of the non-specialist without loss of scholarly precision. Topics covered range from early Greek speculative thought, its cultural and social setting, to the Sophists, Socrates and culminate in three chapters on Plato's lasting contribution to all central areas of philosophy. Supplemented with a chronology, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography, this volume will prove an invaluable and comprehensive guide to the beginnings of philosophy.

The Idea of Nature

Author : Robin George Collingwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198020015
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Nature written by Robin George Collingwood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1960-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collingwood's theory of philosophical method applied to the problem of the philosophy of nature.

Everything, Briefly

Author : Thomas O. Scarborough
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666791474
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Everything, Briefly written by Thomas O. Scarborough and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a man thinks, so is he." Personally, and socially, so is he. Yet if this is true, then "as a man thinks" has led us into the thick of global crisis. What exactly is it, about our thinking, that fails us? What has gone so wrong? There are firm reasons why we may hope for new direction. Firstly, we have a new view of the connectedness of all things. Never before has this encompassed so much. It makes a crucial difference to philosophy. Secondly, when we recast philosophy's high-level concepts in more concrete terms, it becomes possible to discuss them without confusion. This is the method of this book. There is much of interest for the theologian, too. Legendary film director Ingmar Bergman once wrote, "What will happen to us who want to believe, but can not?" His "can not" had to do with what Professor Karen Barad calls the "hegemony of physics". Everything, Briefly details why it is impossible, in fact, to believe in a closed universe of cause and effect.

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691141329
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature written by Richard Rorty and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30 years ago Richard Rorty argued that philosophers had developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. The book now stands as a classic of 20th-century philosophy.

Philosophy of Nature

Author : Francis J. Collingwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258093457
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy of Nature written by Francis J. Collingwood and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature in American Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 42)

Author : Jean De Groot
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813213819
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Nature in American Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 42) written by Jean De Groot and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its focus on philosophy of nature, this book fills a gap in the ongoing reassessment of nineteenth-century American philosophy, and it opens the way to further study of the role played by reflection on nature in the emergence of the American mind.

The Philosophy of Nature

Author : Charles Bucke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780461212013
Total Pages : 356 pages
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The Philosophy of Nature

Author : Dennis Q. McInerny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976037026
Total Pages : 281 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophy of Nature written by Dennis Q. McInerny and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nature of Things

Author : Lucretius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519332363
Total Pages : 150 pages
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Natural Philosophy;

Author : Wilhelm Ostwald
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290260602
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)

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The Metaphysics of Nature (Classic Reprint)

Author : Carveth Read
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365510468
Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book The Metaphysics of Nature (Classic Reprint) written by Carveth Read and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Metaphysics of Nature Critical Philosophy, which takes its name from Kant, and which I shall usually call Metaphysics, is the study of the validity and adequacy of knowledge and belief. Positive Philosophy, with its premises, is, therefore, part of the Object of Metaphysics; but only a part: for Metaphysics has two branches, the Metaphysics of Nature and Science, and the Metaphysics of Ideals. The Ideals are expressed in Polity, Religion, Art, and Virtue; but these human Ideals and their metaphysical significance are beyond the scope of this volume. The Metaphysics of Nature, as Nature is presented to us in science and experience, is my subject; but Since the regions of science are certainly greater than I can explore, I Shall deal only with their most general principles, where they come nearest to philosophical interest, are least technical, and have now become an element of general culture; and it is a rule from which I never depart, not to attempt to solve a priori any problem, that can only be effectually treated by inductive methods. The criticism of knowledge and beliefs, then; and, of course, some extensions and interpretations of them, in order to give roundness and coherence to the whole; in fact, an essay toward the Prima Philosophia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.