Rethinking the Nature of Substance

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Rethinking the Nature of Substance -Biodynamics and the Taming of the Materialistic Lion

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  • Front Matter
  • Part 1: Genesis – On Generation and Corruption
    • Chapter 1: The Search for Plato’s Philosopher
    • Chapter 2: Aristotle and the Unity of Matter and Ideal Substance and How to Know
    • Chapter 3: Moral Philosophy
    • Chapter 4: Nominalism: Elements, Atoms and Change
    • Chapter 5: Alchemy, Medicine and Mysticism
    • Chapter 6: Renaissance Science and the Ghost in the Machine
    • Chapter 7: Revolution – Quantitative Chemistry
  • Part II: Crossing the Threshold – The Taming of the Atom
    • Chapter 8: Vitalism and the Hypothetical Nineteenth Century Atom
    • Chapter 9: Herzeele, Preuss and Goethe, Hauschka and Baumgartner – Living Earth and the New Forming of Chemical Elements
    • Chapter 10: Pictet, Baranger, Kervran and His Theoretical Mechanism for Low Energy Chemical Element Transmutations
    • Chapter 11: Holleman and Biberian’s Transmutation Experiments
    • Chapter 12: Vysotskii & Cold Fusion – Elements, Isotopes and Quantum Physics
    • Chapter 13: Crossing the Threshold 1: Gravity, Electro-magnetism and the Nuclear Atom
    • Chapter 14: Crossing the Threshold 2: Thermodynamics and Quantum Mechanics
  • Part III: Sublimation – Rudolf Steiner, Life, Goethean Physics and the Harmony of the Spheres
    • Chapter 15: Goethean Worldview – Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
    • Chapter 16: Rudolf Steiner – Spiritual Science, Elements, Ethers, Astral, Ego and the Geometry of Space
    • Chapter 17: George Adams – Projective Geometry and Ideal Space
    • Chapter 18: Projective Geometry, Earthly, Etheric, Cosmic and Other Formative Forces – Life Between Earth and Sun
    • Chapter 19: Nick Thomas – Science Based on a Linked Space and Counterspace
    • Chapter 20: Nick Thomas – Working Towards a Goethean Mathematical Physics
    • Chapter 21: Rethinking The Nature of Substance; Biodynamics and the Harmony of the Spheres – Life, Transmutations, Ethers, Astral and Ego Forces
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • References

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