TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tarnas, Richard
AU  - Tarnas,Richard
TI  - The Passion of the Western Mind:  Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
SN  - 9780345368096
U1  - N60 
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; I.The greek world view ....3  The archetypal forms .....6  Ideas and gods ...13  The evolution of the Greek mind from homer to plato ....16  The mythic vision ....16  The birth of philosophy ....19  The greek englightenment ...25  Socrates ....31  The platonic hero ....35  The philosopher`s quest and the universal mind ....41  The problem of the planets ....48  Aristotle and the Greek Balance ....55  The dual legacy ...69  II. The transformation of the classical rea ....73  Crosscurrent of the hellenistic matrix ....75  The decline and preservation of the Greek mind ....75  Astronomy ....79  Astrlogy .....81  Neoplatonism ....84  Rome ....87  The emergence of christianity ....89  III. The christian world view ....91  Judaic monotheism and the divinization of history ....94  Classical elements and the platonic inheritance ...98  The conversion of the pagan mind ....106  Contraries within the christian vision ....120  Exultant christianity ....125  Dualistic christianity ....130  Further contraries and the augustinian ;egacy ....138  Matter and spirit ...138  Augustine ....143  Law and grace ....148  Athens and jerusalem ...151  The holy spirit and its vicissitudes ...155  Rome and catholicism ...158  The virgin Mary and the mother church .....162  A summing up .....165  IV. The transformation of the medieval era ....171  The scholastic awakening ...175  The quest of thomas Aquinas ....179  Further developments in the high middle ages ...191  The rising tide of secular thought ...191  Astronomy and dante ....193  The secularization of the church and the rise of lazy mysticism ....196  Critical scholasticism and ockham`s razor .....200  The rebirth of classical humanism ...209  Petrarch ...209  The return of plato ....211  At the threshold ....220  V. The modern world view ...223  The renaissance ....224  The reformation ....233  The scientific revolution ...248  Copernicus ...248  The religious reaction ....251  Kepler ....254  Galileo ...258  The forging of newtonian cosmology ....261  The philosophical revolution ...272  Bacon ....272  Descartes ...275  Foundations of the modern world view .....282  Ancients and moderns ....291  The triumph of secularism ....298  Science and religion: The early concord ....298  Compromise and conflict ...301  Philosophy, ploitics , psychology ....308  The modern character ....318  Hidden continuities ....320  VI. The transformation of the modern era ....325  The changing image of the Human from copernicus through freud .....326  The self-critique of the modern mind .....333  From locke to hume ....333  Kant .....341  The decline of metaphysics ...351  The crisis of modern science ....355  Romanticism and its fate ...366  The two cultures ...366  The divided world view ....375  Attempted: syntheses: From goethe and hegel to jung ....378  Existentialism and nihilism ...388  The postmodern mind ....395  At the millennium ...411  VII. Epilogue ...415  The post-vopernican double bind ...416  Knowledge and the unconscious ....422  The evolution of world views ...433  Bringing it all back home ...441  Chronology ....446  Notes .....468  Bibligraphy ....494  Acknowledgments ....513  Index ...515
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