| PROLOGUE to return natura |
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| Chapter Ono • Philosophy |
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| 1.1 Love and wisdom |
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| 1.2 Science and the sciences |
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| 1.3 Philosophy as a universal science |
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| 1.4 Philosophy and method ................. . . . ......... . . . . |
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| 1.5 Philosophy and common knowledge |
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| 1.6 Philosophy and cultures |
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| 1.7 Philosophy and Faith |
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| 1.8 Philosophy and its history |
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| Excursus - Science and Faith |
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| Chapter Two • Nature |
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| 2.1 Etymology of the term |
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| 2.2 Nature in an extensive sense . |
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| 2.3 Nature in an intensive sense |
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| 2.4 In rerum natura ...................... |
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| 2.5 Historical view . . |
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| Chapter Three • Philosophy of Nature |
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| 3.1 The philosophy of nature as a theoretical knowledge |
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| 3.2 Philosophy of nature as physics |
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| 3.3 Philosophy of nature as ontology |
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| 3.4 Philosophy of nature as “the science of bodies” |
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| 3.5 Philosophy of nature and philosophy of science |
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| Excursus - Emergence |
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| Excursus - Complexity. . . |
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| Excursus - Holism |
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| Chapter Four • Natural Sciences |
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| 4.1 The scientific revolution |
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| 4.2 The Galilean method |
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| 4.3 For and against the method |
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| 4.4 Philosophy of nature and the natural sciences |
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| Excursus - Ecology |
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| Excursus - Technique and technology |
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| Chapter One |
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| 1.1 The analogy of being.............. |
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| 1.2 The unity of being |
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| 1.3 Substance in philosophical terminology and in other contexts.......... |
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1.4 The analogy of substance...................
1.5 brief historico-philosophical development |
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| Chapter two • The Corporeal Substance |
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| 2 1 The hylomorphic composition of substances |
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| 2 2 Ths potentiality of matter |
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| 2.3 The actuality of form |
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| Excursus - Matter, antimatter, dark matter |
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| Chapter Three • The Variety of Bodies |
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| 3.1 Individual and specific substances |
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| 3.2 Natural and artificial substances |
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| 3.3 Complex substances and aggregates of substances |
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| Excursus - The species |
139 |
| Excursus - Evolution and evolutionism |
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| Chapter Four • The Organism |
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| 4.1 The living body |
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| Excursus - Male and female |
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| Excursus - Gender |
161 |
| Excursus - Neurosciences |
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| Part Three |
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| MOVEMENT |
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| Chapter One • Change |
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| 1.1 Phenomenology of change |
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| 1.2 Philosophical analysis |
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| 1.3 Very brief historical perspective |
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| 1.4 Accidental and substantial change |
175 |
| Excursus - Quantum mechanics |
179 |
| Chapter Two • Causality |
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| 2.1 The four causes: theoretical explanation |
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| 2.2 The causality of nature |
186 |
| Excursus - Determinism and indetermination |
188 |
| Part four |
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| Characteristics of bodies |
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| Chapter one • Fundamental Characteristics of Bodies |
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| 1.1 The accidents of the bodily substance |
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| 1.8 demensive quantity. predicamental and transcendental unity, plurality . . 199 |
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| 1.2.1 Demensive quantity. |
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| 1.2.2 Predicamental and transcendental unity |
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| 1.2.3 Plurality |
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| 1.3 Quality. |
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| 1.4 Relation |
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| Excursus - Euclidean geometry and non-Euclidian geometries |
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| Excursus - The reality of numbers and figures |
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| Chapter Two • Relative Characteristics |
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| 2.1 Space and place |
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| 2.2 Time...... |
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| Excursus - Analog and digital |
235 |
| Excursus - Relativity |
237 |
| Excursus - Infinity |
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| NATURAL ORDER |
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| Chapter One • The Laws of Nature |
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| 1.1 The nature of the law |
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| 1.2 Laws and nature |
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1.3 Lex aeterna
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249 |
| Excursus - Philosophy of the creature and theology of nature |
252 |
| Excursus - The cosmological and anthropic principles |
254 |
| Chapter Two • The Order of the Universe |
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| 2.1 Nature and order |
257 |
| 2.2 Nature and disorder |
259 |
| 2.3 Chance and evil |
262 |
| Excursus - Disorder and entropy |
267 |
| Excursus - Creation, Big Bang, Design |
270 |
| Excursus - Strings, superstrings and brane. |
274 |
| EPILOGUE |
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| PRACTICE QUESTIONS |
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| SOLUTIONS TO PRACTICE QUESTIONS |
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| Part One Philosophy of Nature |
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| Part Two The Bodies |
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| Part Three Motion |
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| Part Four The Characteristics of Bodies |
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| Part Five Natural Order |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHIC INDICATIONS |
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| I. Manuals Review |
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| II. Cited texts |
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| a. Primary Sources |
297 |
| b. Secondary Sources |
301 |
| c. Magisterium of the Catholic Church |
308 |
| d. Literary Works |
309 |
| Index of Names |
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Tác giả: Nguyễn Đình Cửu
Tác giả: Henri Bergson
Tác giả: Robert B. Laughlin
Tác giả: Fritjof Capra
