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Thomas Chippendale (1718–1779) was born in Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England in June 1718. He became a cabinet-maker in London, designing furniture in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles. In 1754 he published a book of his designs, titled The Gentleman and Cabinet Maker's Director, upon which success he became renowned. The designs are regarded as representing the current British fashion for furniture of that period and are now reproduced globally. He was buried 16 November 1779, according to the records of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in the cemetery since built upon by the National Gallery. Chippendale furniture is much valued; a padouk cabinet that was offered for auction during 2008 sold for £2,729,250.[1]
懷德海(A. N. Whitehead, 1861~1947),為當代英美第一大哲,思想貫穿了科學、哲學與宗教,不僅博大圓融,而且迭創新境。一八六一年生於英國,十九歲進入劍橋大學,專研數學,畢業後留校任教達三十年之久。一九二四年赴美國哈佛大學講學,始發揮其哲學方面的才華。
在劍橋期間,與他的學生羅素(Bertrand Russell)合著《數學原理》(Principia Mathematica),此書早已成為當代數理邏輯的經典之作。一九四七年去世。其主要作品有《自然知識原理》(Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge )、《自然概念》(The Concept of Nature )、《相對論原理》(The Principle of Relativity)、《科學與現代世界》(Science and the Modern World)、《歷程與實在》(Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology) 等書。
About the author (2001)
Alfred North Whitehead, who began his career as a mathematician, ranks as the foremost philosopher in the twentieth century to construct a speculative system of philosophical cosmology. After his graduation from Cambridge University, he lectured there until 1910 on mathematics. Like Bertrand Russell (see also Vol. 5), his most brilliant pupil, Whitehead viewed philosophy at the start from the standpoint of mathematics, and, with Russell, he wrote Principia Mathematica (1910--13). This work established the derivation of mathematics from logical foundations and has transformed the philosophical discipline of logic. From his work on mathematics and its logical foundations, Whitehead proceeded to what has been regarded as the second phase of his career. In 1910 he left Cambridge for the University of London, where he lectured until he was appointed professor of applied mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. During his period in London, Whitehead produced works on the epistemological and metaphysical principles of science. The major works of this period are An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge (1919), The Concept of Nature (1920), and The Principles of Relativity (1922). In 1924, at age 63, Whitehead retired from his position at the Imperial College and accepted an appointment as professor of philosophy at Harvard University, where he began his most creative period in speculative philosophy. In Science and the Modern World (1925) he explored the history of the development of science, examining its foundations in categories of philosophical import, and remarked that with the revolutions in biology and physics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a revision of these categories was in order. Whitehead unveiled his proposals for a new list of categories supporting a comprehensive philosophical cosmology in Process and Reality (1929), a work hailed as the greatest expression of process philosophy and theology. Adventures of Ideas (1933) is an essay in the philosophy of culture; it centers on what Whitehead considered the key ideas that have shaped Western culture.
有懷氏的至友普萊士所編的《懷德海對話錄》(Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead)
可在 總圖書館 Main Library總圖5F俞大維文庫 (洽櫃臺調閱)(俞大維 B1674.W353 D5 1956)獲得
Junius Lucien Price, who also published under the name Seymour Deming, was the author of more than a dozen books and a writer for publications such as The Boston Evening Transcript and The Atlantic Monthly. At the time of his death at age 81 he was still writing for the Boston Globe. Wikipedia
"Whitehead's approach to life and science provides a compass for the modern world. In these pages the immense reaches of his thought - in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art, and conduct of life - are gathered and edited by the writer Lucien Price, a sophisticated journalist whose own interests were as eclectic as Whitehead's and whose memory for verbatim conversation was nothing short of miraculous. The scene, the Cambridge of Harvard from 1932-1947 (with flashbacks to London; Cambridge, England; and his native Ramsgate in Kent); the cast, men and women, often eminent, who join him for these penetrating, audacious, and exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects range from the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of man over the past thirty centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Reading this book is essentially like having a conversation with a friendly genius. I was genuinely impressed by the down-to-earth attitude coupled with the insight which flowed so naturally out of the conversations. The book also provides quite a bit of historical context to Whitehead's philosophy, and manages to do so in a way that is not only interesting for the study of this philosophy, but also in such a way as to convey the emotional weight of the situations involved. The questions which Price calls forth are the questions which should have been asked, and the conversations had between the two are illuminating. Not only valuable in the study of the man's work, but also in the simple fact that it is a very good read, this book leaves one feeling as if one now knows Whitehead on a personal level, and this is a feat altogether too uncommon amongst other biographic works or dialogues pertaining to Philosophers. I highly recommend this book for an informal introduction to Whitehead's general philosophy, and also to anyone wishing for that feeling one gets in good, intelligent conversation with a man worthy of respect.
Page 18 - For the whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Page 160 - Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude, we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of human life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Page 162 - In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call "inert ideas"— that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilised, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.
Page 128 - Fifty-seven years ago it was," said he, "when I was a young man in the University of Cambridge. I was taught science and mathematics by brilliant men and I did well in them; since the turn of the century I have lived to see every one of the basic assumptions of both set aside...
Page 367 - Such was the end, Echecrates, of our friend; concerning whom I may truly say, that of all the men of his time whom I have known, he was the wisest and justest and best.
Page 98 - The vitality of thought is in adventure. . . . Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and, if need be, die for it.
Page 171 - Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race'.2 He is at one with the Indian thinkers in regard to the nature of religious experience and theology. 'Mysticism leads us to try to create out of the mystical experience something that will save it, or at least save the memory of it. Words do not convey it except feebly; we are aware of having...
Page 61 - I mean is, law has been civilized — that was done by the Greeks and the Romans, Justinian and that lot ; — medicine has been taken out of magic ; education has been getting rid of its humbug; and next it is time to teach business its sociological function ; for if America is to be civilized, it must be done (at least for the present) by the business class, who are in possession of the power and the economic processes.
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