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Author Gaukroger, Stephen, author.

Title The natural and the human : science and the shaping of modernity, 1739-1841 / Stephen Gaukroger
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Contents Cover; The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841; Copyright; Preface; 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 MEDICINETHE 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 DOGMATHE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIONS; AESTHETIC HUMANISM AND THE CULTIVATION OF THE SELF; Conclusion; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Religion and science -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
Science and civilization.
Human behavior.
Science -- history
Natural History -- history
Behavior
human behavior.
SCIENCE -- History.
Human behavior
Philosophy and science
Religion and science
Science
Science and civilization
Naturwissenschaften
Philosophie
Religion
Religion och vetenskap.
Filosofi och naturvetenskap.
Vetenskap -- historia.
Europe
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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