Brief History of Philosophy and Science (eBook)

Imagining our World

S. Don Bradshaw (Autor)

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2025
115 Seiten
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5066-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores the relationship between science and philosophy and begins with the extraordinary mathematical explanations of Earth's solar system by the Ancient Greeks. Throughout the Middle Ages, human thinking suffered the strictures imposed by the Roman Catholic Church but emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Age of the Enlightenment. During this era, ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview and instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics. In The Age of Technology, which followed in the 19th and 20th centuries, humans became alienated from the natural environment and abandoned philosophical thought. Belief in the machine was supreme and it is only in the 21st century that humans have come to understand the downside of unfettered science; the threat of nuclear annihilation is still with us, and we now face the new threat of human-induced global warming. Can philosophy open a door to thinking that helps one to understand one's own time, and our place in it?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.6.2025
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• ISBN-10: 1-0364-5066-X / 103645066X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0364-5066-3 / 9781036450663