دانلود کتاب Mastery of Nature: Promises and Prospects

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Contents\nPreface\nIntroduction\nI. The Project for Mastery\nChapter 1. Machiavelli and the Discovery of Fact\nChapter 2. The Place of the Treatment of the Conquest of Nature in Francis Bacon’s On the Wisdom of the Ancients\nChapter 3. Hobbes on Nature and Its Conquest\nChapter 4. Devising Nature: An Essay on Descartes’s Discourse on Method\nChapter 5. Montesquieu, Commerce, and Science\nChapter 6. Bacon and Franklin on Religion and Mastery of Nature\nII. Ancient Alternatives and Anticipations\nChapter 7. On the Supremacy of Contemplation in Aristotle and Plato\nChapter 8. Xenophon and the Conquest of Nature\nChapter 9. Lucretius on Rebelling Against the “Laws” of Nature\nIII. Consequences, Critiques, and Corrections\nChapter 10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Return to Nature vs. Conquest of Nature\nChapter 11. Kant on Organism and History: Ambiguous Endings\nChapter 12. Beyond the Island of Truth: Hegel and the Shipwreck of Science\nChapter 13. Separating the Moral and Theological Prejudices and Taking Hold of Human Evolution\nChapter 14. Mastery of Nature and Its Limits: The Question of Heidegger\nChapter 15. What Is Natural Philosophy? The Perspective of Contemporary Science\nChapter 16. Quantum Mechanics and Political Philosophy\nNotes\nList of Contributors\nIndex\nAcknowledgments