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Our Changing World-View : Ten Lectures on Recent Movements of Thought in Science, Economics, Education, Literature and Philosophy

Ranging from economics, psychology, a spurious rebuttal of evolution to a substantial revisionist history, and the perils of the 'machine age', the ten lectures (originally published in 1932) includes leading intellectuals and academics of the day, notably Jan Smuts, Robert Broom and R.F.A...

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Autor principal: Smuts, Jan Christian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • 1. Some Recent Scientific Advances in Their Bearing on Philosophy
  • 2. The Material World-Yesterday and Today
  • 3. Evolution-Design or Accident?
  • 4. Man at the Crossroads
  • 5. Psychology in Perspective
  • 6. Literature in the Machine Age
  • 7. The Holistic Attitude in Education
  • 8. Our Changing Economic World
  • 9. Africa in the Re-Making
  • 10. Old Truths and New Discoveries