Lowell Lectures, 1925

Lowell Lectures, 1925

Science and the modern worldThe present book embodies a study of some aspects of Western culture during...
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Author: Whitehead, Alfred North,1861-1947
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Language: English
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Lowell Lectures, 1925

Lowell Lectures, 1925

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Lowell Lectures, 1925

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Author: Whitehead, Alfred North,1861-1947
Format: eBook
Language: English

Science and the modern world

The present book embodies a study of some aspects of Western culture during the past three centuries, in so far as it has been influenced by the development of science. This study has been guided by the conviction that the mentality of an epoch springs from the view of the world which is, in fact, dominant in the educated sections of the communities in question. There may be more than one such scheme, corresponding to cultural divisions. The various human interests which suggest cosmologies, and also are influenced by them, are science, aesthetics, ethics, religion. In every age each of these topics suggests a view of the world. In so far as the same set of people are swayed by all, or more than one, of these interests, their effective outlook will be the joint production from these sources. But each age has it dominant preoccupation; and, during the three centuries in question, the cosmology derived from science has been asserting itself at the expense of older points of view with their origins elsewhere. Men can be provincial in time, as well as in place. We may ask ourselves whether the scientific mentality of the modern world in the immediate past is not a successful example of such provincial limitation. Philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies. It is its function to harmonise, refashion, and justify divergent intuitions as to the nature of things. It has to insist on the scrutiny of the ultimate ideas, and on the retention of the whole of the evidence xin shaping our cosmological scheme. Its business is to render explicit, andso far as may beefficient, a process which otherwise is unconsciously performed without rational tests. Bearing this in mind, I have avoided the introduction of a variety of abstruse detail respecting scientific advance. What is wanted, and what I have striven after, is a sympathetic study of main ideas as seen from the inside. If my view of the function of philosophy is correct, it is the most effective of all the intellectual pursuits. It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent:and the spiritual precedes the material. Philosophy works slowly. Thoughts lie dormant for ages; and then, almost suddenly as it were, mankind finds that they have embodied themselves in institutions. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68611
Author: Whitehead, Alfred North
Release Date: Jul 25, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The MacMillan Company
Publication Date: 1925
Publisher Country: United States

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