By Gary B. Ferngren, Visit Amazon's Edward J. Larson Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Edward J. Larson, , Darrel W. Amundsen
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The aim of this quantity is to supply a finished survey of the ancient dating of theWestern spiritual traditions to technological know-how from the time of the Greeks of the 5th century sooner than Christ to thelate 20th century. The editors’ choice to restrict the volume’s assurance to the West displays either ourown specialist backgrounds and our trust that, underlying the variety of different streams that havefed Western civilization, there exists a simple substratum, shaped by means of the West’s twin background of the classicalworld of Greece and Rome and the monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The morethan 100 articles that we have got commissioned reveal that, inside of that history, technological know-how andreligion have loved a assorted and multifaceted organization. From the start, the editors meant toproduce a quantity that will supply a handy precis of contemporary ancient scholarship. In assigning thearticles, we have now been lucky in enlisting the cooperation of the various prime students within the field.Our participants were drawn from numerous backgrounds. No unmarried element of view—in recognize toeither faith or ancient interpretation—can be acknowledged to monopolize those pages. whereas a lot of ourcontributors proportion the view of the editors that the ancient dating of technology and faith has been acomplex one—sometimes harmonious, occasionally conflictive, usually only coexisting—others continue a lessbenign view of Western religions as they've got interacted with technological know-how. additionally, readers will locate someoverlap within the topics taken care of. instead of attempt vigorously to prevent duplication, we now have commissionedseveral essays that care for assorted elements of an analogous topic. Our wish all through has been that eacharticle may still supply a complete remedy of its topic.
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In From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957), Koyré argued that the revolution involved philosophy and theology as well as science and that all three dimensions of thought usually existed in “the very same men,” such as Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), René Descartes (1596–1650), Isaac Newton, and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). Koyré thus portrayed the conflict between Newton and Leibniz, one that involved Leibniz’s stiff opposition to Newton’s gravitational theory, as primarily a theological conflict.
His philosophy of science featured a series of what he called “fundamental ideas” (like the idea of space) that, as part of man’s mind created in the image of God, figured crucially in scientific knowledge of God’s other creation, nature. Moral knowledge was structured similarly. Both moral and scientific knowledge were progressive. Scientists, for example, gradually became aware of the existence and implications of fundamental ideas. The study of history, that is, disclosed (a sometimes lurching) progress toward the present or, at any rate, Whewell’s particular version of the present.
Earlier adumbrations of science were pale, short-lived imitations, doomed by hostile environments. Unfortunately, Jaki thought, amidst attacks on Christianity in the twentieth century, there had arisen the theory of an oscillating universe, which was another unwarranted, unscientific, cyclic view of nature. Hence, consideration of both past and present disclosed the same truth: “the indispensability of a firm faith in the only lasting source of rationality and confidence, the Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible” (Jaki 1974, 357).
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