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Philosophy, God and motion /
"In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. Philosophy, God and Motion shows that this is a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Radical orthodoxy series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Plato's Timaeus and the soul's motion of knowing. The Nature of the cosmos. Reason, necessity and the power of rhetorical persuasion. The pedagogy and ethics of cosmology
- Aristotle: ecstasy and intensifying motion. The Physics and nature's motion. Ecstasy and intensification. The ethics of motion: place, limit and God
- Light, motion and Scientia experimentalis. Robert Grosseteste: the science of light and the light of truth. The Experimentum. Roger Bacon: truth and experiment
- St. Thomas Aquinas: the god of motion. At the limits of Aristotelian physics. Motion and God. Virtue, grace and motion. Christ, the Eucharist and motion
- The isolation of physics. Avicenna on metaphysics and physics. The theory of impetus and the quantification of motion
- Newton: God without motion. The theological context of Newtonian motion. Motion in the Principia. Absolute space, Christ and motion. The fate of mechanistic motion.