264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the post-Newtonian world motion is assumed to be a simple category which relates to the locomotion of bodies in space, and is usually associated only with physics. This book shows this to be a relatively recent understanding of motion and that prior to the scientific revolution motion was a broader and more mysterious category, applying to moral as well as physical movements.... Read more
Introduction. Part one: Plato's Timaeus and the Soul's Motion of Knowing 1. The Nature of the Cosmos 2. Reason, Necessity and the Power of Rhetorical Persuasion 3. The Pedagogy and Ethics of Cosmology Part two: Aristotle: Ecstasy and intensifying motion 1. The Physics and Nature's Motion 2. Ecstasy and Intensification 3. The Ethics of Motion: Place, limit and God Part three: Light, Motion and Scientia Experimentalis 1. Robert Grosseteste: The science of light and the light of truth 2. The Experimentum 3. Roger Bacon: Truth and experiment Part four: St Thomas Aquinas: The God of motion 1. At the Limits of Aristotelian Physics 2. Motion and God 3. Virtue, Grace and Motion 4. Christ, the Eucharist and Motion Part five: The Isolation of Physics 1. Avicenna on Metaphysics and Physics 2. The Theory of Impetus and the Quantification of Motion Part six: Newton: God without motion 1. The Theological Context of Newtonian Motion 2. Motion in the Principia 3. The Absolute Space, Christ and Motion 4. The Fate of Mechanistic Motion Conclusion.
Biography
Simon Oliver is Lecturer in Theology at University of Wales, Lampeter.
