Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-259) and index.
Contents:
III. Bernhardt L. Trout. Quantum mechanics and political philosophy / Daniel A. Doneson, Svetozar Y. Minkov, and Bernhardt L. Trout -- I. The project for mastery. Machiavelli and the discovery of fact / Harvey C. Mansfield -- The place of the treatment of the conquest of nature in Francis Bacon's On the wisdom of the ancients / Svetozar Y. Minkov -- Hobbes on nature and its conquest / Devin Stauffer -- Devising nature : an essay on Descartes's Discourse on method / Stuart D. Warner -- Montesquieu, commerce, and science / Diana J. Schaub -- Bacon and Franklin on religion and mastery of nature / Jerry Weinberger -- II. Ancient alternatives and anticipations. On the supremacy of contemplation in Aristotle and Plato / Robert C. Bartlett -- Xenophon and the conquest of nature / Christopher Nadon -- Lucretius on rebelling against the "laws" of nature / Paul Ludwig -- III. Consequences, critiques, and corrections. Jean-Jacques Rousseau : return to nature vs. conquest of nature / Arthur Melzer -- Kant on organism and history : ambiguous endings / Richard Velkley -- Beyond the island of truth : Hegel and the shipwreck of science / Michael A. Gillespie -- Separating the moral and theological prejudices and taking hold of human evolution / Lise van Boxel -- Mastery of nature and its limits : the question of Heidegger / Mark Blitz -- What is natural philosophy? : the perspective of contemporary science / Adam Schulman -- Quantum mechanics and political philosophy / Bernhardt L. Trout.
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