Hobbes's Doctrine of Method

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 1336-1353 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Weinberger
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
New Science ◽  
New Rhetoric ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
Human Problem

A persistent problem in the interpretation of Hobbes's self-proclaimed founding of modern political science is the nature of the link between that political science and Hobbes's understanding of modern natural science and scientific method. The intention of this essay is to suggest that Hobbes's doctrine of method reveals the unity of his teaching about science, man, and politics. The unifying role of the doctrine of method can be understood only as a function of Hobbes's intention to reform what he saw as the previously defective relationship between practice and theory. In the light of this intention, the doctrine of method will be shown to consist in a new rhetoric which links the resolution of the human problem to the conquest of nature facilitated by the new science of nature. This rhetoric will be shown to be the substantial core of the doctrine of method itself.

The Materialism Controversy

After Hegel ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick C. Beiser
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Shock Waves ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Materialism ◽  
Reason And Faith

This chapter examines the so-called “materialism controversy,” one of the most important intellectual disputes of the second half of the nineteenth century. The dispute began in the 1850s, and its shock waves reverberated until the end of the century. The main question posed by the materialism controversy was whether modern natural science, whose authority and prestige were now beyond question, necessarily leads to materialism. Materialism was generally understood to be the doctrine that only matter exists and that everything in nature obeys only mechanical laws. If such a doctrine were true, it seemed there could be no God, no free will, no soul, and hence no immortality. These beliefs, however, seemed vital to morality and religion. So the controversy posed a drastic dilemma: either a scientific materialism or a moral and religious “leap of faith.” It was the latest version of the old conflict between reason and faith, where now the role of reason was played by natural science.

scholarly journals Further Results about Seeking for the Exact Solutions of the Nonlinear 2 + 1 -Dimensional Jaulent-Miodek Equation

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Jingsen Hu ◽  
Jianming Qi
Keyword(s):  
Nonlinear Equation ◽  
Exact Solutions ◽  
Nonlinear Equations ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Expansion Method ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
Nonlinear Science ◽  
Formula Method

Nonlinear science is a great revolution of modern natural science. As a result of its rise, the various branches of subjects characterized by nonlinearity have been developed vigorously. In particular, more attention to acquiring the exact solutions of a wide variety of nonlinear equations has been paid by people. In this paper, three methods for solving the exact solutions of the nonlinear 2 + 1 -dimensional Jaulent-Miodek equation are introduced in detail. First of all, the exact solutions of this nonlinear equation are obtained by using the exp − ϕ z -expansion method, tanh method, and sine-cosine method. Secondly, the relevant results are verified and simulated by using Maple software. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of the above three methods listed in the paper are analyzed, and the conclusion was drawn by us. These methods are straightforward and concise in very easier ways.

H. COLLINS'S PROJECT FOR DEVELOPING A RELATIVISTIC EMPIRICAL PROGRAMME IN SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Nadezhda Nikolina
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
Experimental Process ◽  
Issue Knowledge

The main idea of the project discussed in the article is that the production of scientific knowledge is not only an experimental process. Convention among scientists is played a special role in the acceptance of theory. To demon-strate this idea, H. Collins and co-authors of the relativistic empirical programme in the sociology of science publish a special issue “Knowledge and Controversy: Studies of Modern Natural Science”. The results obtained by the authors are discussed in this article.

THE FORMATION OF SPIRITUAL-AESTHETIC VALUES IN THE CLASSES ON «CONCEPTS OF MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE»

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (6/1) ◽  
pp. 223-226
Author(s):  
Tatiana Ivanovna Avdeeva ◽  
Maria Ivanovna Vysokos ◽  
Svetlana Ivanovna Zykova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The Good Life and the Life Sciences

1988 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Wiser
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
Modern Natural Science ◽  
Political Challenge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Instruments And Techniques

Arnhart's “Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism” is both a valuable and yet at the same time a problematic study. Its value for political science lies in Arnhart's reminder that for many of the most important thinkers in the history of Western political thought their efforts to discover and articulate the principles of a political order necessarily presupposed a specific understanding of the order of nature itself. Given this, the fundamental political challenge of the modern scientific and industrial revolutions not only includes the new instruments and techniques of organization and manipulation made possible by the discoveries of modern science, but also those cultural and intellectual assumptions which create that very environment within which such instruments and techniques first became possible. In illustrating this intimate relationship between modern natural science and modern political science, Grant (1976:124) has written: “What calls out for recognition here is that the same apprehension of what it is to be ‘reasonable’ leads men to build computers and to conceive the universal and homogenous society as the highest political goal. The ways such machines can be used must be at one with certain conceptions of political purposes because the same kind of ‘reasoning’ made the machines and formulated the purposes. To put the matter extremely simply, the modern physical sciences and the modern political sciences have developed in mutual interpenetration, and we can only begin to understand that interpenetration in terms of some common source from which both forms of science found their sustenance.”

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