Scott Milross Buchanan (1895–1968)
Forfatter af The Portable Plato
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Rediscovering Natural Law: A Report to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (1962) 5 eksemplarer
The corporation and the republic 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1895-03-17
- Dødsdag
- 1968-03-25
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bopæl
- Annapolis, Maryland, USA
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- Amherst College
Oxford University (Balliol College)
Harvard University (PhD) - Erhverv
- professor
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- St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
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which is sad, bc this is such a potent topic which so few ppl have written seriously abt (heidegger comes to mind, but he didnt have much of a grasp of mathematical form). and he approaches the topic from a great angle, incorporating science studies--a view for how poetic images have influenced the role of mathematics in science--and an elegantly simple treatment of some heady metaphysical philosophy. but its so, so horribly dated, and perhaps more sadly it lacks style
even in 1929 if u write a book of mathematics, u generally write w a certain formalistic structure; if u write a book of poetry, u generally write w a certain freewheeling or imaginative grace; this has neither, essentially possessing the worst of both worlds in terms of the writing and presentation… (mere)