Science in Culture

Translated from the Polish by Hugh McDonald
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2136-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 185, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Gilson Studies

This book tries to uncover science’s discoverer and explain why the conception of science has been changing during the centuries, and why science can be beneficial and dangerous for humanity. Far from being hermetic, this research can be interesting for all who want to understand deeper what really conditions the place of science in culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaroszynski, Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Mieczyslaw Albert Krapiec
Preface by Tadeusz Kwiatkowski
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Part One: The Rise of Theoretical Knowledge
One. The Discovery of Science: Greece or the East?
Two. Why the Greeks?
Three. Bios Theoretikos
Four. Philosophy’s Rise from Sensations to Wisdom
Five. Knowledge and Opinion
Six. Theoretical Features of the Object of Scientific Cognition
Seven. Theoretical Justification
Eight. Theoretical Proof
Nine. Types of Science
Part Two: The Hellenistic Deformation of Theoretical Knowledge
Ten. Knowledge or Philosophy of the Sake of Praxis
Eleven. Neo-Platonism: An End Beyond Knowledge
Part Three: Philosophy and Theology in Relation to Revelation
Twelve. Aversion to Pagan Authority
Thirteen. Handmaiden to Theology
Fourteen. Sacred Scripture and the Problem of Interpretation: The Sentences
Fifteen. Metaphysics and Natural Theology
Sixteen. Philosophy in the Service of Theology
Part Four: Science: Toward Technology and Ideology
Seventeen. The Problem of the Continuity of Science in the Middle Ages
Eighteen. The Problem of Experimental Science in the Middle Ages
Nineteen. The Mathematization of Scientific Knowledge
Twenty. The Influence of Nominalism
Part Five: Science as Technology
Twenty-One. The Quest for an Earthly Paradise
Twenty-Two. The End of Knowledge: Complete Utilitarianism
Twenty-Three. The Influence of the East
Twenty-Four. Science and Utopia: From the House of Solomon to the Royal Society
Twenty-Five. A New Model of Scientific Knowledge
Twenty-Six. Philosophy and Gnosticism
Part Six: The Transformation of Philosophy into Ideology
Twenty-Seven. Ideas–Concepts–Impressions
Twenty-Eight. The War against Idols
Twenty-Nine. The Critique of Catholicism and Metaphysics
Thirty. Ideology and the New Social Order
Thirty-One. Ideology: The Evolution of the Concept
Part Seven: Toward a New World Order
Thirty-Two. Kant: The World Before Reason’s Tribunal
Thirty-Three. Auguste Comte: Toward a New Age
Thirty-Four. Neopositivism at War with Metaphysics
Thirty-Five. Science and the New World Order or Science in the Service of Globalism
Part Eight: The Place of Science in Culture
Thirty-Six. What is Culture?
Thirty-Seven. The Domains of Culture
Thirty-Eight. Ends, Limits, and Directions in the Growth of Science
Thirty-Nine. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index of Works
Index of Authors, Editors, and Translators
Index of Subjects
Index of Names