Title The passion of the Western mind : understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view / Richard Tarnas.

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Edition	1st Ballantine books ed.
Description	xiv, 544 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 494-512) and index.
Contents	I. The Greek world view. 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 -- II. The transformation of the classical era. Crosscurrents of the Hellenistic matrix ; The emergence of Christianity -- III. The Christian world view. 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 -- IV. The transformation of the Medieval era. 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 -- V. The modern world view. The Renaissance ; The Reformation ; The scientific revolution ; The philosophical revolution ; Foundations of the modern world view ; Ancients and moderns ; The triumph of secularism -- VI. The transformation of the modern era. 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 -- VII. Epilogue. The post-Copernican double bind ; Knowledge and the unconscious ; The evolution of world views ; Bringing it all back home -- Chronology.
Summary	An historical account of the evolution of Western culture, from the ancient Greeks to the postmodern era.
Subject	Philosophy -- History.
	Civilization, Western.
	Religion and science -- History.
	Consciousness -- History.
	Civilization, Western. (OCoLC)fst00863138
	Consciousness. (OCoLC)fst00875441
	Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
	Religion and science. (OCoLC)fst01093848
	Geistesgeschichte (DE-588)4071653-3
	Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
	Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
	Civilisation occidentale.
	Histoire de la philosophie.
	Pensée.
	Philosophie occidentale.
	Europa.
	Philosophy -- History.
	Western civilization.
	Religion and science -- History.
	Consciousness -- History.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	0345368096
	9780345368096

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