02499nam 2200457 450 991080685380332120161024011047.01-4985-2756-6(CKB)3710000000894147(EBL)4717573(MiAaPQ)EBC4717573(EXLCZ)99371000000089414720161025h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierConcepts of nature ancient and modern /edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F. McGuireLanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2016.©20161 online resource (252 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-2754-X 1-4985-2755-8 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Contents; Introduction; Voegelin's Analysis of Human Nature in Aristotle; Response to Barry Cooper; Nature, Human Nature, and Human Dignity in Light of the Primary Experience of the Cosmos; Response to Glenn Hughes; Natural Rights and History: Hugo Grotius's ModernTranslation of Aristotle; Response to Jeremy Geddert; Categories and Causes: Physics and Politics for Aristotle and for Us; Response to James Stoner Jr.; Rousseau on Nature, Freedom, and the Moral Life; Response to Susan Meld Shell; Nature, History, and the Problem of Progress in H. G. Wells; Response to Charles RubinNature in Louis Dupré's Model of ModernityResponse to Stephen Fields, S.J.; From Pure Nature to Concrete Subject: The Question of God in the Secular Age; Response to Randall Rosenberg; Index; About the ContributorsThis volume focuses on the question of how and why the concept of nature has changed its meaning in modernity and whether a rearticulation of premodern ideas about nature is possible in the modern world. Building on the work of Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, Bernard Lonergan, John Finnis, and others, the book compares and contrasts classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature.Philosophy of natureHistoryPhilosophy of natureHistory.113.09Snell R. J.1975-McGuire Steven F.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806853803321Concepts of nature3941052UNINA