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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Mechanistic worldview"”.
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Girard Desargues, the architectural and perspective geometry: a study in the rationalization of figure
… Desargues participated in the development of the mechanistic worldview which accompanied the emergence of experimental science and the renewed interest in mathematics and geometry as axiomatic, deductive systems. This dissertation examines in detail Desargues' methods of stereotomy (the …
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A structural approach to reimagining community: biomimicry, biophilia and living labs
… that are in accordance with the ecological worldview. Aspects of an effective strategy rooted in the ecological worldview - especially Biomimicry, Biophilia and a Living Labs approach - are being created in silos but lack application at a systems level. The objective of this research is to …
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Over Growth: a metabolic densification of Cape Town
… revolution our society has become governed by a mechanistic way of thinking that originates from technology and science. These thought patterns have shaped the way we design and perceive architecture globally. Many other aspects of society are also influenced by the same mechanistic thought, …
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Nineteenth-century life sciences and Hegel's organic view of systems
… retains a clear position of dominance in Kant's worldview. Hegel was one of the first thinkers to register complaint about Kant's mechanistic worldview. By incorporating the principle of teleology and the concept of the organism into the logic, Hegel provides the philosophical basis to the life …
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Ethical pesticide policy : beyond risk assessment
… of nature, which broadly underlies the mechanistic worldview of science, is unethical because it fails to take into account the needs and interests of nonhuman nature. Ethical pesticide policy is therefore based on ecological rationality ( as well as social rationality) and a recognition …
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Curriculum Studies Gone Wild: Bioregional Education and the Scholarship of Sustainability
… crisis and to contest the contemporary mechanistic form of education by returning to a more "wild" form of intellectual, spiritual, and ecological scholarship. By wild, I mean a more robust, original, resilient, and diverse curriculum. An eco-curriculum for sustainability embraces the …