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... Descartes could not of course foresee that this one-sided effort to 'conquer nature' would bring a special danger, the closer it approached realization: that of dispossessing and displacing man himself. But though we must now confront ...
... Descartes could not of course foresee that this one-sided effort to 'conquer nature' would bring a special danger, the closer it approached realization: that of dispossessing and displacing man himself. But though we must now confront ...
Page 83
... Descartes' God even as a hypothesis, returned to the world of dreams to discover how much of the human reality Descartes had rejected in adhering strictly to those waking moments favorable to rational investigation. What Descartes ...
... Descartes' God even as a hypothesis, returned to the world of dreams to discover how much of the human reality Descartes had rejected in adhering strictly to those waking moments favorable to rational investigation. What Descartes ...
Page 85
... Descartes' question: May not living organisms be satisfactorily explained, and so governed, as if they were machines? The specific attributes of life seemed to Descartes "not at all strange to those who are acquainted with the variety ...
... Descartes' question: May not living organisms be satisfactorily explained, and so governed, as if they were machines? The specific attributes of life seemed to Descartes "not at all strange to those who are acquainted with the variety ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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