Theoretic Life - A Classical Ideal and its Modern Fate - Reflections on the Liberal Arts (Rosenthal-Pubul Alexander S.)(Pevná vazba)

Acknowledgements.- About the Author.- Table of Figures.- Part I - The Emergence of the Theoretic Life in Classical Greek Philosophy.- Chapter 1. The New Barbarism: The Contest between Classical Humanist Culture and Techno-Economic Pragmatism.- Chapter 2. In Pursuit of the Noble: The Classical Birth of the Liberal Arts.- Chapter 3: The Political and the Theoretic Life - the Challenge of Socrates.- Chapter 4. Aristotelian Teleology: The Bridge Between Natural Philosophy and the problem of "the Good Life".- Chapter 5. The Aristotelian Revolution: The Autonomy of the Theoretic Life and the Dream of Universal Science.- Part II. The Baconian Revolt against Greek Theoria and the Modern Birth of the Technological Mind.- Chapter 6. The Rebirth of Time: Sir. Francis Bacon and the Origins of Modernity.- Chapter 7. Bacon s New Magic: The Transfigured Aim of the Sciences.- Chapter 8. Technology
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