Résumé
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Philosophy was born of a first questioning look at nature and from that beginning, its ambition was to be a science of nature. But after the 17th century revolution in thinking, science took the lead. It redefined nature, which is no longer the perpetual essence of all that exists. Strengthened by the mathematical language it favours above other approaches to nature, science claims its aptitude to metamorphose natural qualities and even to engender them. Instead of being an ultimate foundation, what emerges is nature's capacity to renew itself in ways we could never have foreseen, created by our intervention. As its domain of action spread, nature, however abstract, became decidedly more human. But it is a disturbing humanity, where former harmonies are replaced by disorder, the accidental, collapse. The control of that instability is nourished by the malaise that science itself has created: it is no longer related to reality except through the intermediary of an impressive symbolic system the mathematical symbol has taken over from the real, the shadow of a nature that has lost the radiant light of its origins. It is precisely because science has taken over the potential reflection that was, traditionally, handed down to philosophy, that a new philosophical take on the concept of nature has become imperative. Incessantly, the vast torment of Nature calls upon all forms of knowledge to reclaim their original place in the world. Our very first perception of what is natural is ultimately the greatest enigma that science bequeaths to us. In this light, Nature casts a dual shadow: the desire for knowledge and its perpetual dissatisfaction.
L'auteur - Pierre Kerszberg
Pierre Kerszberg est professeur de philosophie à l'université Toulouse - Jean-Jaurès. Il est notamment l'auteur de The Invented Universe, La Science dans le Monde de la Vie et Les Premiers Gestes du Savoir.
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Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Pierre Kerszberg |
Collection | Passages |
Parution | 07/05/2009 |
Nb. de pages | 218 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 324g |
EAN13 | 9782204088343 |
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