As I was saying
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
- Retrieved
- Jan 31, 2012
- ISBN
- rWlaAAAAMA
1 meme from this reference
Science for Knowledge, Not Utility
Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he…