The Search for Certainty
Who are we? What are we? How do we fit into the world? Or into the universe? These and other questions pertaining to ourselves and our environment are as compelling to us today as they were to our primitive ancestors. Throughout our history we have developed paradigms of thought that have attempted to answer these questions, each conceptual framework being particularly relevant to its age. We are, in the twentieth century, witnessing a complete reorganization of our thinking. We are now, with the aid of technology, able to bring together both ancient and new patterns of thought and to observe the emergence of a kaleidoscopic world view that is uniting the once dissonant theories of philosophy, religion, and science. This book sketches an historical picture of three world views that have shaped our ideas about ourselves. These conceptual formats that have so influenced us are not mutually exclusive and are present in all of us simulta­ neously, although to varying degrees depending upon our individual biases.
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The Search for Certainty
Who are we? What are we? How do we fit into the world? Or into the universe? These and other questions pertaining to ourselves and our environment are as compelling to us today as they were to our primitive ancestors. Throughout our history we have developed paradigms of thought that have attempted to answer these questions, each conceptual framework being particularly relevant to its age. We are, in the twentieth century, witnessing a complete reorganization of our thinking. We are now, with the aid of technology, able to bring together both ancient and new patterns of thought and to observe the emergence of a kaleidoscopic world view that is uniting the once dissonant theories of philosophy, religion, and science. This book sketches an historical picture of three world views that have shaped our ideas about ourselves. These conceptual formats that have so influenced us are not mutually exclusive and are present in all of us simulta­ neously, although to varying degrees depending upon our individual biases.
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The Search for Certainty

The Search for Certainty

The Search for Certainty

The Search for Certainty

Overview

Who are we? What are we? How do we fit into the world? Or into the universe? These and other questions pertaining to ourselves and our environment are as compelling to us today as they were to our primitive ancestors. Throughout our history we have developed paradigms of thought that have attempted to answer these questions, each conceptual framework being particularly relevant to its age. We are, in the twentieth century, witnessing a complete reorganization of our thinking. We are now, with the aid of technology, able to bring together both ancient and new patterns of thought and to observe the emergence of a kaleidoscopic world view that is uniting the once dissonant theories of philosophy, religion, and science. This book sketches an historical picture of three world views that have shaped our ideas about ourselves. These conceptual formats that have so influenced us are not mutually exclusive and are present in all of us simulta­ neously, although to varying degrees depending upon our individual biases.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780387908892
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 03/12/1984
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. The Birth of Certainty.- Civilization and Its Concepts.- Language and the Concept of Self.- Construction of the Word World.- The Anthropomorphic World of Words.- 2. Spirits and Gods.- 3. Christian Concepts.- 4. Self, Soul, and Psyche.- The Mechanical World of Form and Function.- 5. Knowledge in Numbers.- 6. Living Machines.- The Relative World of Process.- 7. The Return of Uncertainty.- 8. The Emergence of I.- Conclusion.- 9. The Death of Certainty.
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