The natural and the human [electronic resource] : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 / Stephen Gaukroger.
Gaukroger, Stephen, author.
2016
Q127.E8 G375 2016eb
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Title The natural and the human [electronic resource] : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 / Stephen Gaukroger.
Author Gaukroger, Stephen, author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9780191817366 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757634
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 402 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198757634 doi
Call Number Q127.E8 G375 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 501
Summary Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was understood. At the core of the shift, he argues, lay the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations in empirical rather than theological and metaphysical terms.
Note Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of science and our understanding of ourselves during a period which saw a fundamental shift in how the role of science was understood. At the core of the shift, he argues, lay the aim of understanding human behaviour and motivations in empirical rather than theological and metaphysical terms.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction. PART I. 1 The dichotomies of understanding : The place of reason
Systematic knowledge
Reason and sensibility
The challenge to reason
The limits of certainty
The anatomy of reason. 2 Rethinking the nature of matter : The reaction to mechanism
Chemical composition
Chemical "elements"
Vital forces
The unity of force
Naturalization. PART II. 3 Anthropological medicine : The idea of an anthropological medicine
Matter and sensitivity
Médecins philosophes
Social medicine
The demise of sensibility. 4 Philosophical anthropology : Metaphysics and psychology
Language and art
The shaping of experience
The legitimacy of anthropological explanation. 5 The natural history of man : The problem of classification
Anthropology and natural history
Comparative anatomy
Comparative geography
Comparative history. 6 Social arithmetic : The Fable of the Bees
The naturalization of morality
The quantification of everyday life
The average man. PART III. 7 The naturalization of religion : The limits of reason
The historicization of Christianity
The evolution of religions
Aesthetic humanism and the cultivation of the self. Conclusion. Bibliography of works cited
Index.

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