Allow me to preface my remarks today by saying that I am not going to give a lecture in the
usual sense of communicating results or presenting a systematic statement. Rather, what I …

EVE VERY Preface, befide occafional or expla natory remarks, fhould contain not only the
general defign of the work, but the motives and circumftances which induced the author to …

Man has long wrestled with the problem of finding meaning in history. It is not surprising that,
as a Christian, Hans Urs von Balthasar finds the meaning of history in Christ, its center and …

Historians have frequently claimed that an important aspect of the demise of Aristotelianism
during the Scientific Revolution was a change in the concept of causality, a change that …

THIS VOLUME owes its existence to the suggestion and the persuasive insistence of my
friend and colleague Justus Buchler, who urged me to collect various papers, printed and …

The first part of the paper offers philosophical landmarks on the general issue of defining life.
§ 1 defends that the recognition of “life” has always been and remains primarily an intuitive …

Foreword by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn Darwin's theory of evolution remains
controversial, even though most scientists, philosophers, and even theologians accept it, in …

Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about
nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the …

The temptation to ignore the temporal dimension of science, to treat il as irrelevant to the
proper understanding of what science is, has alway~ been strong among philosophers. One …

The History of Science• 107 a by-product of pedagogy. They saw in it, besides intrinsic
appeal, a means to elucidate the concepts of their specialty, to establish its tradition, and to …