Part I analyses the historical-philosophical developments and conditions of a current way of Western thinking and living, their immanent dynamics and their relation to the present ecological crisis. This part also investigates Schelsky's thesis that from modern time onwards a specific epistemological model has become manifest, laying the foundations for our technological-scientific society. ... Comparing the theories of Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Francis Bacon, Hobbes, Newton, Locke and Vico, each in their own way reflects the above mentioned, adage. ... Part I exposes the relations...

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