9798275231663 - purpose and function: aristotle and the modern world di kriger, boris (6 risultati)
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Across two millennia, Aristotle's thought has shaped the architecture of human understanding. His ideas traveled through Greek, Persian, Islamic, and European traditions, influencing sciences, religions, and political institutions; inspiring breakthroughs and creating obstacles; offering cl…arity and imposing limits. This book returns to Aristotle not to repeat his legacy, but to examine the deeper intellectual instinct behind it-the human need to build order, purpose, and coherence in a world that rarely provides them.The chapters trace how Aristotle created the earliest systematic vision of knowledge: his classification of the sciences, his theory of causes, his understanding of purpose in nature, his reflections on the good life, and his vision of political community. With equal attention, the book explores the limits of his thought: the errors born of insufficient data, the traps of teleology, and the weight of tradition that has shaped Western thinking more than we often realize.By moving between ancient texts and contemporary debates-from biology and ethics to artificial intelligence and the structure of modern explanation-the book shows how Aristotle's questions persist even where his answers no longer hold. They remain embedded in the way we observe, reason, classify, interpret, and attempt to understand ourselves.This is not a work of reverence. It is an attempt to see Aristotle clearly: as a mind of extraordinary power working within the constraints of his time, and as a thinker whose influence cannot be fully understood without confronting both his achievements and his limitations. The result is a reflection on the enduring tension between order and uncertainty, structure and freedom, purpose and chance-tensions that define not only Aristotle's world, but our own.KeywordsAristotle, teleology, purpose, causality, ethics, knowledge, modernity This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Across two millennia, Aristotle's thought has shaped the architecture of human understanding. His ideas traveled through Greek, Persian, Islamic, and European traditions, influencing sciences, religions, and political institutions; inspiring breakthroughs and creating obstacles; offering cl…arity and imposing limits. This book returns to Aristotle not to repeat his legacy, but to examine the deeper intellectual instinct behind it-the human need to build order, purpose, and coherence in a world that rarely provides them.The chapters trace how Aristotle created the earliest systematic vision of knowledge: his classification of the sciences, his theory of causes, his understanding of purpose in nature, his reflections on the good life, and his vision of political community. With equal attention, the book explores the limits of his thought: the errors born of insufficient data, the traps of teleology, and the weight of tradition that has shaped Western thinking more than we often realize.By moving between ancient texts and contemporary debates-from biology and ethics to artificial intelligence and the structure of modern explanation-the book shows how Aristotle's questions persist even where his answers no longer hold. They remain embedded in the way we observe, reason, classify, interpret, and attempt to understand ourselves.This is not a work of reverence. It is an attempt to see Aristotle clearly: as a mind of extraordinary power working within the constraints of his time, and as a thinker whose influence cannot be fully understood without confronting both his achievements and his limitations. The result is a reflection on the enduring tension between order and uncertainty, structure and freedom, purpose and chance-tensions that define not only Aristotle's world, but our own.KeywordsAristotle, teleology, purpose, causality, ethics, knowledge, modernity This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
