Main currents of Western thought : readings in Western European intellectual history from the Middle Ages to the present
Print Book, English, 1978
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1978
xviii, 806 pages ; 24 cm
9780300021622, 9780300022339, 0300021623, 0300022336
3650678
Pt. 1: Age of religion
The medieval Christian world-view
Fundamental assumptions
Aspects of medieval philosophy and cosmology
The idea of a Christian society
The Renaissance
Mental conflict
New interests and emphases
Christian humanism
The confessional age
First principles of the Protestant Reformation
The Calvinistic system
Radical Protestantism
The Catholic Reformation
Protestantism and politics
Persecution and toleration
Protestantism and capitalism
The philosophy of history
Pt. 2: Age of science
The scientific revolution
New focus of intellectual interest
The new science
Redefinition of knowledge: new goals and methods of science
The "mechanical" philosophy
Science and religion
Seventeenth-century political theories
"Ancients" and "moderns"
The Enlightenment
Spirit of the Enlightenment
Deism and atheism
Nature
Man
Society
The idea of progress
Century of becoming
Romanticism and idealism
The new Enlightenment
The Darwinian world
Toward the twentieth century
Pt. 3: Age of anxiety
On the meaning of the twentieth century
Religion and skepticism
Existentialism
Another scientific revolution
The nature of man
New social perspectives
The intellectuals and political commitment
Progress or decay?