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The passion of the Western mind : understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view

✍ Scribed by Tarnas, Richard


Publisher
Ballantine Books
Year
1993
Tongue
English
Leaves
544
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


An historical account of the evolution of Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the postmodern era.


Abstract: An historical account of the evolution of Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the postmodern era

✦ Table of Contents


Content: 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.

✦ Subjects


Philosophy -- History. Civilization, Western. Religion and science -- History. Consciousness -- History. Civilisation occidentale. Histoire de la philosophie. Pensée. Philosophie occidentale. Geistesgeschichte. Geschichte. Philosophie. Europa. Consciousness.


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