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Title: Natural Philosophy
Condition: New
Subtitle: On Retrieving a Lost Disciplinary Imaginary
Author: Alister E. McGrath
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0192865730
EAN: 9780192865731
ISBN: 9780192865731
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Release Date: 10/11/2022
Description: Recovering the forgotten discipline of Natural Philosophy for the modern worldThis book argues for the retrieval of 'natural philosophy', a concept that faded into comparative obscurity as individual scientific disciplines became established and institutionalized. Natural philosophy was understood in the early modern period as a way of exploring the human relationship with the natural world, encompassing what would now be seen as the distinct disciplines of the natural sciences, mathematics, music, philosophy, and theology. The first part of the work represents a critical conversation with the tradition, identifying the essential characteristics of natural philosophy, particularly its emphasis on both learning about and learning from nature. After noting the factors which led to the disintegration of natural philosophy during the nineteenth century, the second part of the work sets out the reasons why natural philosophy should be retrieved, and a creative and innovative proposal for how this might be done. This draws on Karl Popper's 'Three Worlds' and Mary Midgley's notion of using multiple maps in bringing together the many aspects of the human encounter with the natural world. Such a retrieved or 're-imagined' natural philosophy is able to encourage both human attentiveness and respectfulness towards Nature, while enfolding both the desire to understand the natural world, and the need to preserve the affective, imaginative, and aesthetic aspects of the human response to nature.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 164mm
Item Width: 21mm
Item Weight: 546g
Release Year: 2022

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