 | Martha Ornstein Bronfenbrenner - 1928 - 330 páginas
...taught in the Schools, we may find a practical philosophy by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, the stars, heavens and...which they are adapted, and thus render ourselves masters and possessors of nature. This is not merely to be desired with a view to the invention of... | |
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - 1926 - 672 páginas
...view, Descartes. " It is possible to attain knowledge which is very useful in life, and instead of that speculative philosophy which is taught in the Schools,...render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature." 31 REFERENCES 1. Tauler'a Sermons, ed. HR Allinson, 324-26, 354. 2. Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, World's... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1964 - 513 páginas
...Descartes wrote: It is possible to attain knowledge which is very useful in life, and instead of that speculative philosophy which is taught in the Schools,...render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature. The challenge thrown out by Bacon and Descartes was quickly taken up, and scientists plunged optimistically... | |
 | Stephen V. Monsma, Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship - 1986 - 268 páginas
...the Schools, we may find a practical philosophy by means of which, knowing the forces and the actions of fire, water, air, the stars, heavens and all other...render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature. This is not merely to be desired with a view to the invention of an infinity of arts and crafts which... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - 628 páginas
...see that it is possible to attain knowledge which is very useful in life, and that, instead of that speculative philosophy which is taught in the Schools,...thus render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature.12 The new model of rational mastery which Descartes offers presents it as a matter of instrumental... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1990 - 434 páginas
...philosophy by means of which, knowing the force and the action of fire, water, air, the stars, the heavens, and all other bodies that environ us, as...render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature. The chemist Robert Boyle said, "The good of mankind may be much increased by the naturalist's insight... | |
 | Max Oelschlaeger - 1991 - 506 páginas
...see that it is possible to attain knowledge which is very useful in life, and that, instead of that speculative philosophy which is taught in the Schools,...thus render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature.6* In this regard, then, Descartes is a virtual clone of Bacon, extolling the power of science... | |
 | Daniel Bell - 1991 - 408 páginas
...taught in the schools, we may find a practical philosophy ... by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, the stars, heavens and...render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature." The Philosophical Works of Descartes, trans, by Elizabeth S. Haldane and GRT Ross (London: Cambridge... | |
 | Lawrence E. Johnson - 1993 - 316 páginas
...(Discourse on Method, p. 119): we may find a practical philosophy by means of which, knowing the force and action of fire, water, air, the stars, heavens and...render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature. That Balbus was wrong about the world being tailor-made to suit our advantage is taken not to mean... | |
 | Robin Attfield - 2011 - 276 páginas
...knowing the force and the action of fire, water, air, the stars, heavens and all other bodies which environ us, as distinctly as we know the different...thus render ourselves the masters and possessors of nature.'53 A despotic attitude is certainly implicit in this interpretation of dominion over nature,... | |
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For they caused me to see that it is possible to attain knowledge which is very useful in life, and that, instead of that speculative philosophy which is taught in the schools, we may find a practical philosophy by means of which, knowing the force and... 
