Tag: Ancient Greeks
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 5: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/liebig_company_trading_card_ad_01.12.002_front.tif.jpg?w=640)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 5: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism
An early draft of a deprecated chapter on Medieval alchemy…
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/801px-plato_in_nuremberg_chronicle_lxxiiiv-1918879990-e1725717021405.jpg?w=801)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 4: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism: Plato & Aristotle – Matter & Substance
A draft version of a deprecated chapter about the later classical philosophers, including the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle and the Epicureans…
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 3: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Ancient Atomists](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/plato_anaxagoras__democritus_wellcome_m0009604-689607957-e1725717622223.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 3: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Ancient Atomists
A draft of a deprecated chapter on the so-called Ancient Greek atomists…
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 2: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Origins of Natural Philosophy](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pherecydes_of_syros_recent_bust_syro208-2545820094-e1725719610287.jpg?w=744)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 2: Version 0.3: The Beginnings and Philosophical Foundations of Chemistry: Origins of Natural Philosophy
Early draft of a deprecated chapter. …from the time of Homer, and the advent of written Greek, humankind began to feel separate from the world of Gods and elemental beings. As Steiner said: “Their thought pictures developed as a tool of truth”….
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![[Old] Chapter 1-Part 1 – Prehistory: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/amphitheatrum_sapientiae_aeternae_-_alchemists_laboratory.jpg?w=1006)
[Old] Chapter 1-Part 1 – Prehistory: Version 0.3: The Beginnings of Chemistry and the End of Realism
Early draft of deprecated chapter. The mysteries to be explored in this book largely fall under the subject matter of chemistry. Though I was not particularly talented at school or university in the practical art of chemistry, I have always been fascinated by its apparent magical qualities. There is something deeply mysterious about it. I…
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![[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1280px-kairo_museum_eisendolch_tutanchamun_01.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Chapter 1 part 1 (version-0.2)
This deprecated draft chapter started as a historical review of chemistry in the West. This update interweaves its content with Rudolf Steiner’s Riddles of Philosophy. Also used is E.J. Dijksterhuis The Mechanization of the World Picture….
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![[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-summer_breviary-renaud_de_bar-2.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Book Two: Goethe, Steiner and the Ancient Greeks – or – Rethinking the Nature of Substance
This book – if I even manage to write it(!) – will be a big philosophical work. I intend it to be based on a number of ideas and indications I discovered in the course of my researches on the original book…
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![[Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!](https://rethinkingsubstance.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/summer_breviary-renaud_de_bar.jpg?w=1024)
[Old] Foreword: The Story So Far!
The original book concept was big and ambitious. I tried to simplify it. But each of its parts increasingly appeared to form a single coherent whole. So I am now in the challenging process of bringing all of its parts together in such a way that each part illuminates all of the others, enabling their…
Rethinking the Nature of Substance 