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Há 5 dias · The ambitious scope of The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 justifies a comparison with such magisterial works as Keith Thomas’ Man and the Natural World, Donald Worster’s Nature’s Economy, and Raymond Williams’ The City and the Country. (1) An urge ‘for system, order and design’ defined the unity of 18th-century thought ...
Há 2 dias · David Hume ( / hjuːm /; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 – 25 August 1776) [7] was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, [8] and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. [1] Beginning with A Treatise of Human ...
Há 2 dias · Philosophy (φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions.
Há 23 horas · Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher.
Há 2 dias · This encompasses his view that knowledge need not be of an unchanging nature but can be gained by observing the world around us. Aristotle became the leading forefather of naturalist thought in philosophy, which studies natural occurrences in the world and nature in order to gain knowledge.
Há 4 dias · Everyone must do philosophy, Aristotle claims, because even arguing against the practice of philosophy is itself a form of philosophizing. The best form of philosophy is the contemplation of the universe of nature; it is for this purpose that God made human beings and gave them a godlike intellect.
Há 2 dias · PL 377 - Philosophy of Nature. (3.00 cr.) Examines the changing view of nature from the period of the early modern philosophers of nature, Newton and Bacon, through the Cartesian mechanization of nature adopted and extended by Enlightenment scientists and its rejection by Goethe and Schelling, who defended an organic and holistic view of nature.
