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Science in culture
Record details
- ISBN: 9781429481250 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1429481250 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9789042021365 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9042021365 (pbk.)
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1 online resource (xxi, 314 p.) : ill. - Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-273) and indexes. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | List of illustrations -- Foreword / Mieczysław Albert Kra̜piec -- Preface / Tadeusz Kwiatkowski -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1, The rise of theoretical knowledge -- 1. The discovery of science : Greece or the East? -- 2. Why the Greeks? -- 3. Bios Theoretikos -- 4. Philosophy's rise from sensations to wisdom - 5. Knowledge and opinion -- 6. Theoretical features of the object of scientific cognition -- 7. Theoretical justification -- 8. Theoretical proof -- 9. Types of science -- pt. 2. The Hellenistic deformation of theoretical knowledge -- 10. Knowledge or philosophy for the sake of praxis -- 1. Stoic modifications to philosophy -- 2. The stoic understanding of philosophy -- 3. The divisions of philosophy -- 4. The leading science : ethics or physics? -- 5. Logic as a science -- 6. Consequences of the stoic understanding of philosophy - 11. Neo-Platonism : an end beyond knowledge -- 1. From philosophy to mysticism in Polotinus -- 2. Theurgy in place of philosophy (Iamblichus) |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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