The Discovery of Time"A discussion of the historical development of our ideas of time as they relate to nature, human nature and society. . . . The excellence of The Discovery of Time is unquestionable."—Martin Lebowitz, The Kenyon Review |
Contents
MEMORIES AND MYTHS | 23 |
Chronicles and Genealogies | 24 |
Myths and Legend | 29 |
SCIENCE WITHOUT HISTORY | 33 |
The Divorce of History from Philosophy | 38 |
Platos CreatorCraftsman | 42 |
Aristotles Eternal Universe | 44 |
Stoics and Epicureans | 46 |
THE EARTH ACQUIRES A HISTORY | 141 |
The Epochs of Nature | 142 |
The Fact of Geological Change | 150 |
The Agents of Geological Change | 152 |
The Perspective of Indefinite Time | 155 |
The Historical TimeBarrier is Broken | 159 |
THE BACKGROUND TO DARWIN | 171 |
Are There Fixed Species in Nature? | 172 |
The Limits of the Classical WorldPicture | 49 |
The Beginnings of Natural History | 50 |
THE AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES | 55 |
Fundamentalism and Allegory | 57 |
The New Chronology | 59 |
The Mediaeval WorldAllegory | 65 |
The Dream of the Millennium | 70 |
THE REVIVAL OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY | 74 |
The Fall of the World | 75 |
Descartes Mathematical Philosophy | 77 |
The Theological Consequences of Cartesianism | 83 |
The Blueprints of Creation | 87 |
The Great Chain of Being | 96 |
The EighteenthCentury Commonplaces | 101 |
THE REVIVAL OF CIVIL HISTORY | 103 |
Decay or Progress? | 106 |
The Customs of the Ages | 110 |
Human Nature and Social Change | 113 |
The Myth of the Social Contract | 118 |
Intimations of Progress | 121 |
TIMES CREATIVE HAND | 125 |
Kant and Cosmic Evolution | 129 |
Herder and the Development of Nature | 135 |
The Temporal Sequence of Forms | 177 |
The Problem of Inheritance | 184 |
The Final Impasse | 189 |
LIFE ACQUIRES A GENEALOGY | 197 |
Darwin Recognizes His Problem | 199 |
The Creation of the Origin | 204 |
The Structure of the Origin | 206 |
The Scientific Objections | 212 |
Darwinism and Natural Theology | 224 |
HISTORY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES | 232 |
The Recognition of Progressive Change | 233 |
Critical History and its Implications | 235 |
The Evolution of Humanity | 238 |
The Flux of Nature | 244 |
TIME AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD | 247 |
The Evolution of Stars and Chemical Elements | 250 |
Astronomy and the Problem of Creation | 254 |
Truth Hypothesis or Myth? | 257 |
Are the Laws of Nature Changing? | 263 |
NATURE AND HISTORY | 266 |
The Evolution of Ideas | 269 |
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