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The natural and the human : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 / Stephen Gaukroger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaukroger, Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Europe--History--18th century.
- Science.
- Science--Europe--History--19th century.
- Philosophy and science--Europe--History--18th century.
- Philosophy and science.
- Philosophy and science--Europe--History--19th century.
- Religion and science--Europe--History--18th century.
- Religion and science.
- Religion and science--Europe--History--19th century.
- Science and civilization.
- Human behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 402 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 historicization of dogma
- The evolution of religions
- Aesthetic humanism and the cultivation of the self. Conclusion. Bibliography of works cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 19, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-107487-X
- 0-19-181736-8
- 0-19-107486-1
- OCLC:
- 931873668
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