| Description |
xiv, 544 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The Archetypal Forms -- Ideas and Gods -- The Evolution of the Greek Mind from Homer to Plato -- The Philosopher's Quest and the Universal Mind -- The Problem of the Planets -- Aristotle and the Greek Balance -- The Dual Legacy -- Crosscurrents of the Hellenistic Matrix -- The Emergence of Christianity -- Judaic Monotheism and the Divinization of History -- Classical Elements and the Platonic Inheritance -- The Conversion of the Pagan Mind -- Contraries Within the Christian Vision -- Exultant Christianity -- Dualistic Christianity -- Further Contraries and the Augustinian Legacy -- The Holy Spirit and Its Vicissitudes -- Rome and Catholicism -- The Virgin Mary and the Mother Church -- A Summing Up -- The Scholastic Awakening -- The Quest of Thomas Aquinas -- Further Developments in the High Middle Ages -- Critical Scholasticism and Ockham's Razor -- The Rebirth of Classical Humanism -- At the Threshold -- The Renaissance -- The Reformation -- The Scientific Revolution -- The Philosophical Revolution -- Foundations of the Modern World View -- Ancients and Moderns -- The Triumph of Secularism -- The Changing Image of the Human from Copernicus through Freud -- The Self-Critique of the Modern Mind -- The Crisis of Modern Science -- Romanticism and Its Fate -- The Postmodern Mind -- At the Millennium- The Post-Copernican Double Bind -- Knowledge and the Unconscious -- The Evolution of World Views -- Bringing It All Back Home |
| Summary |
An historical account of the evolution of Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the postmodern era |
| Analysis |
Civilization, Western |
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Consciousness - History |
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Philosophy - History |
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Religion and science - History |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Civilization, Western.
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Consciousness -- History.
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Philosophy -- History.
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Religion and science -- History.
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| LC no. |
92090050 |
| ISBN |
0345368096 |
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