Author: Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d')Publisher:
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Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
The System of Nature
Author: Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d')Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
The System of Nature, Or, Laws of the Moral and Physical World
Author: Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (baron d')Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The system of nature: or, Laws of the moral and physical world
Author: Paul Henri Thiry HolbachPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The System of Nature
Author: Paul Henri ThieryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000696642
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Originally published in 1984. Paul Henri Thiery, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), was the center of the radical wing of the philosophers. Holbach wrote, translated, edited, and issued a stream of books and pamphlets, often under other names, that has made him the despair of bibliographers but has connected his name, by innuendo, gossip, and association, with most of what was written in defeense of atheistic materialism in late eighteenth-century France. Holbach is best known for The System of Nature (1770) and deservedly, since it is a clear exposition of his main ideas. His initial position determines all the rest of his argument: 'There is not, there can be nothing out of that Nature which includes all beings.' Conceiving of nature as strictly limited to matter and motion, both of which have always existed, he flatly denies that there is any such thing as spirit or supernatural. This is the first of three volumes.
The System of Nature, Or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1
Author: Holbach Paul Henri ThiryPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781545103456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1 By Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry
The Nature of the Physical World
Author: Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonPublisher:
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Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The System of Nature; Or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World, In Two Volumes
Author: Paul Henri Thiry HolbachPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387322518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Design in Nature
Author: Adrian BejanPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307744345
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.
System of Nature, Or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World
Author: baron d' Holbach (1723-1789, Paul Henri Thiry)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Hobbes and the Law of Nature
Author: Perez ZagorinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691139806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Zagorin clears up numerous misconceptions about Hobbes and his relation to earlier natural law thinkers, in particular Hugo Grotius, and he reasserts the often overlooked role of the Hobbesian law of nature as a moral standard from which even sovereign power is not immune. Because Hobbes is commonly thought to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated and widely assumed to depend entirely on individual self-interest. Zagorin reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law."--Pub. desc.