1st Edition
Questioning Authority Political Resistance and the Ethic of Natural Science
By Diana M. Judd
Copyright 2009
164 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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The West is currently witnessing the slow destruction of the classical liberal tradition. The casualties are reason, the willingness to question political or religious authority, and the validity of natural science. Replacing these are a crippling intellectual relativism, political apathy, and a grave misunderstanding of natural science and its concomitant ethic. In this work, Diana M. Judd gets... Read more
Introduction; I: From Natural Philosophy to Political Philosophy; 1: Francis Bacon: A New Interpretation of Nature; 2: Thomas Hobbes's Scientific Approach to Politics; 3: John Locke and the Origins of Political Resistance; II: Science and Its Critics; 4: The Ethic and Practice of Modern Natural Science; 5: Critical Theory and the Critique of Modernity; 6: Michel Foucault and the Postmodern Reaction; Conclusion
Biography
Diana M. Judd
