Too many options? Treat your friends and family to their favourite stores with a Bayshore Shopping Centre gift card, redeemable at participating retailers throughout the centre. Click below to purchase yours today!Purchase Here
Coles Birth of Reason, The at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
In The Birth of Reason Louis Dudek establishes the link between ancient pre-Socratic Atomism and modern quantum mechanics. In characteristically unencumbered terms, Dudek shows how this revolutionary philosophy, the invention of thinkers from Ioanian Greek trading cities, has been consistently misrepresented and resisted. Atomism nevertheless marks the transition from primitive mythological thinking (mythos) to the abstract, concept-based rationality (logos) that informs our modern approach to an ultimately unknowable reality. This essay is a kind of summation of myself gnothi seautn.... I am neither a materialist nor a theist, really, nor am I altogether an agnostic. As I say in [the] essay, the ultimate reality is unknowable, but I am sure that if it were knowable it would satisfy both the materialist and the theist, and much more that we cannot imagine. Identified by Wynne Francis as Canadas first man of letters, Dudek once again ventures into new intellectual territory and reveals the underpinnings of his own remarkable cultural, social, and economic thought. Critical Comment If anyone could make the Ionian skeptics palatable to a generation raised on music and television, its Louis Dudek. The Ottawa Citizen ...the highlight is ... 39 fragments from the pre-Socratics that Dudek astutely describes as reading like a philosophical poem. The Montreal Gazette ...includes the thesis that the scientific conception of the universe ... is the most advanced stage of religious evolution. Canadian Book Review Annual
In The Birth of Reason Louis Dudek establishes the link between ancient pre-Socratic Atomism and modern quantum mechanics. In characteristically unencumbered terms, Dudek shows how this revolutionary philosophy, the invention of thinkers from Ioanian Greek trading cities, has been consistently misrepresented and resisted. Atomism nevertheless marks the transition from primitive mythological thinking (mythos) to the abstract, concept-based rationality (logos) that informs our modern approach to an ultimately unknowable reality. This essay is a kind of summation of myself gnothi seautn.... I am neither a materialist nor a theist, really, nor am I altogether an agnostic. As I say in [the] essay, the ultimate reality is unknowable, but I am sure that if it were knowable it would satisfy both the materialist and the theist, and much more that we cannot imagine. Identified by Wynne Francis as Canadas first man of letters, Dudek once again ventures into new intellectual territory and reveals the underpinnings of his own remarkable cultural, social, and economic thought. Critical Comment If anyone could make the Ionian skeptics palatable to a generation raised on music and television, its Louis Dudek. The Ottawa Citizen ...the highlight is ... 39 fragments from the pre-Socratics that Dudek astutely describes as reading like a philosophical poem. The Montreal Gazette ...includes the thesis that the scientific conception of the universe ... is the most advanced stage of religious evolution. Canadian Book Review Annual
Coles is renowned for its outstanding customer service and great selection of books. Along with the vast array of magazines, stationary, audio-books, children's literature, fiction, non-fiction and reference books, you can find accessories to make your reading experience more pleasurable. We can recommend the very best in reading today. We will help you search our titles for exactly what you need, and if we do not have it in stock, we will order it for you.
