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The natural and the human : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 /
Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was understood. At the core of the shift, he argues, lay the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Introduction; PART I; 1: The Dichotomies of Understanding; THE PLACE OF REASON; SYSTEMATIC KNOWLEDGE; REASON AND SENSIBILITY; THE CHALLENGE TO REASON; THE LIMITS OF CERTAINTY; THE ANATOMY OF REASON; 2: Rethinking the Nature of Matter; THE REACTION TO MECHANISM; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL 'ELEMENTS'; VITAL FORCES; THE UNITY OF FORCE; NATURALIZATION; PART II; 3: Anthropological Medicine; THE IDEA OF AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL MEDICINE; MATTER AND SENSITIVITY; MÉDECINS PHILOSOPHES.
- SOCIAL MEDICINETHE DEMISE OF SENSIBILITY; 4: Philosophical Anthropology; METAPHYSICS AND PSYCHOLOGY; LANGUAGE AND ART; THE SHAPING OF EXPERIENCE; THE LEGITIMACY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLANATION; 5: The Natural History of Man; THE PROBLEM OF CLASSIFICATION; ANTHROPOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPARATIVE GEOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE HISTORY; 6: Social Arithmetic; THE FABLE OF THE BEES; THE NATURALIZATION OF MORALITY; THE QUANTIFICATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE; THE AVERAGE MAN; PART III; 7: The Naturalization of Religion; THE LIMITS OF REASON; THE HISTORICIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY.
- THE HISTORICIZATION OF DOGMATHE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIONS; AESTHETIC HUMANISM AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF; Conclusion; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index.