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The work frames each epoch’s “mentality” through dominant worldviews formed by science, aesthetics, ethics, and religion, and argues that philosophy must critique and harmonize cosmologies by insisting on scrutiny of ultimate ideas and the retention of evidence. It emphasizes studying key ideas from within rather than overwhelming detail.","ABOUT THIS BOOK  \nThe essential features of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of organism are already known to ali audience beyond, that of his fellow philosophers. Ernest Nagel, in an attempt to explain the wide influence 'of Whitehead's system of thought, says: \"His philosophical writings express some of the dynamic tensions of the society in which he lived, and they answer needs that are deep-seated and widely felt.': Nagel adds: \"He was an extraordinarily gifted spokesman, perceptive and wise, for everything nascent, venturesome and potentially liberating.\"  \nScience' qnd the Modern World, perhaps White- 'head's most widely read philosophic work, consists in the main of a series of eight Lowell Lectures \u003C'l.elivered at Harvard University in 1925. Whitehead himseV wrote that the book \"embodies a study of some aspects of Western culture during the past three centuries, in so far as it has been influenced by the development of science. \" The'key to the book, he said, \"is the sense of the overwhelming importance of a prevalent philosophy.\"  \nJohn Dewey called Science and the Modern World \"The most significant restatement for the gen􁑷ral reader of the present relations of science, philosophy, and the issues of life which has yet appeared.\" Herbert Read wrote: \"This is the most important book pl,!blished in the conjoint realms of science and philosophy since Descartes'Discourse on Method. It embodies the material of a revolution in our whole concept of life or being, and seeks toreinter:pret not only the categories of science and philosophy, but even those of religion and art.\" Edmund Wilson said: \". . . in Whitehead. . . it is possible, to an astonishing extent, to watch in one mind the modification of thought, under the action of radically novel ideas, in a variety .of fields of experience; and its reorganization at the hands of a vigorous intellect and a daring imaginaction.\" And Julian Huxley: \"One of those books that mark an epoch.\"  \nSCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD  \nLOWELL LECTURES, 1925  \n·  \nBy ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD  \nF.R.S. Se.D (Cambridge), Hon. D.Se. (Manchester)  \nHon. LL. D 1St. Andrew's)  \nFellow 01 Trinit'Y College .in the University of Cambridge and late Professor ot Philosophy in Harvard University  \n. .  \nA PELICAN MENTOR BOOK Published by THE NEW AMERlCAN LIBRARY  \nCOPYRIGHT, 1925, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY  \nAll rights reserved-no part of this book may be re, produced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper.  \nPublished as a PELICAN MENTOR BOOK  \nBy arrangement with The Macmillan Company  \nFIRST PELICAN MENTOR BOOKS EDITION, MAY, 1948  \nPEL! CAN MENT OR BO 0 [\u003CS are published /nJ The New American Library ot World Literature, Inc, 245 Fifth Avenue, New . York 16, New York  \nPRINTED IN rHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  \nTOMY COLLEAGUES, PAS'] AND PRESENT. WHOSF FRIENDSHIP IS INSPlRATION  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nCHAPTER PAGE  \nI. THE ORIGINS OF MODERN SCIENCE  \nII. MATHEMATICS AS AN ELEMENT IN THE  \nHISTORY OF THOUGHT 20  \nIII. THE CENTURY OF GENIUS 3:.1  \nIV. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . ,f)7  \nV. THE ROMANTIC REACTION . 75  \nVI. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . 96  \nVII. RELATIVITY 115  \nVIII. THE QUANTUM THEORY 130  \nIX. SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY 138  \nX. ABSTRACTION 157  \nXI. GOD 173  \nXII. RELIGION AND SCIENCE 180  \nXIII. REQUISITES FOR SOCIAL PROGRESS 192  \nINDEX . 209  \nPREFACE  \nTHE PRESENT BOOK embodies a study of some aspects of Western culture during the past three centuries, in so far as it has been influenced by the development of science. This study has been guided by the conviction that the mentality of an epoch springs from the view of the world which is, in fact, dominant in the educated sections of the communities in question. There may be more than one such scheme, corresponding to cultural divisions. The various human interests which suggest cosmologies, and also ","cbCaijFo2eKGuz0R","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijFo2eKGuz0R","pdf",3808535,4,1,227,"English","en",105,"# The Origins of Modern Science\n# Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought\n# The Century of Genius\n# The Eighteenth Century\n# The Romantic Reaction\n# The Nineteenth Century\n# Relativity\n# The Quantum Theory\n# Science and Philosophy\n# Abstraction\n# God\n# Religion and Science\n# Requisites for Social Progress\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of Science and the Modern World?\",\"answer\":\"The book studies aspects of Western culture over the past three centuries and how they have been influenced by the development of science.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book explain the relationship between science and broader cultural worldviews?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that an epoch’s mentality springs from the dominant worldview among educated communities, formed by multiple interests such 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