Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge

Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge

Julius Thomas Fraser

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Princeton University Press
Año de edición:
1990
Materia
Historia de la ciencia
ISBN:
9780691024370
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'Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.’' Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a master of the subject. And while developing a theory of 'time as conflict,' J. T. Fraser does offer 'many things indeed'--an enormous range of ideas about matter, life, death, evolution, and value.

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