Nature and the Cosmos: Essays in the History of IdeasDabor Science Publications, 1977 - 108 Seiten |
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... mathematical laws.2 Proceeding from this Pythago- rean conception , Plato in the Gorgias develops a theory of virtue which locates its essence in the concepts of order and harmony . The important contemporary controversy over the ...
... mathematical laws.2 Proceeding from this Pythago- rean conception , Plato in the Gorgias develops a theory of virtue which locates its essence in the concepts of order and harmony . The important contemporary controversy over the ...
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... mathematics would scarcely be convincing today , and our mathematics has gone far beyond what was ever conceived of in antiquity . Nor is geometry any longer the queen of the mathematical sciences . That Greek mathematical thought could ...
... mathematics would scarcely be convincing today , and our mathematics has gone far beyond what was ever conceived of in antiquity . Nor is geometry any longer the queen of the mathematical sciences . That Greek mathematical thought could ...
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... mathematical or clockmaking God of early modern scientific speculation was closer to the world than the unspeakably transcendent God of the Gnostics.7 For the Gnostics , any purposes which the world might have belonged to the powers of ...
... mathematical or clockmaking God of early modern scientific speculation was closer to the world than the unspeakably transcendent God of the Gnostics.7 For the Gnostics , any purposes which the world might have belonged to the powers of ...
Inhalt
The History of Ideas and the Study of Literature | 1 |
The Unnaturalness of Metaphysical Poetry | 18 |
The Theme of Cosmic Order | 59 |
Urheberrecht | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
achievement acosmic ancient Anniversary Aristotle Burckhardt classical complex conception contemporary conventions cosmic order cosmic piety cosmological cosmos creation cultural death decay defined disorder divine Donne's Dryden E. R. Dodds earth English erudition Essay existence experience expression faith Gorgias Greek Greek astronomy Hans Jonas heavens Hegel historians history of ideas human images of order imagination important intellectual John Donne Johnson kind knowledge language learning literary literature love poems Lovejoy man's mankind mathematical meaning mechanical philosophy metaphor metaphysical poets mind modern moral motion natural theology nature neoclassical Newton passion philosophical Plato poetic poetry poets of wit Pope Pope's precisely principle reader reality realm relation religious rhetoric scientific sense sensibility seventeenth century similitude simply soul sphere Spitzer Stoics T. S. Eliot teleology Tesauro theology things thinkers thou thought tion tradition transcendent true truth understanding verse vision words writing