The seekers the story of man's continuing quest to understand his world
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Vintage Books
1999
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| Edición: | 1st Vintage Books ed |
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991008024159708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A personal note to the reader
- Book One: An ancient heritage
- Part 1: The way of prophets: a higher authority
- From seer to prophet: Moses' test of obedience
- A covenanting God: Isaiah's test of faith
- Struggles of the believer: Job
- A world self-explained: evil in the East
- Part II: The way of philosophers: a wondrous instrument within
- Socrates' discovery of ignorance
- The life in the spoken word
- Plato's other-world of ideas
- Paths to utopia: virtues writ large
- Aristotle: an outsider in Athens
- On paths of common sense
- Aristotle's God for a changeful world
- Part III: The Christian way: experiments in community
- Fellowship of the faithful: the Church
- Islands of faith: monasteries
- The way of disputation: universities
- Varieties of the Protestant way: Erasmus, Luther, Calvin
- Book Two: Communal search
- Part IV: Ways of discovery: in search of experience
- The legacy of Homer: myth and the heroic past
- Herodotus and the birth of history
- Thucydides creates a political science
- From myth to literature: Virgil
- Thomas More's new paths to utopia
- Francis Bacon's vision of old idols and new dominions
- From the soul to the self: Descartes' island within
- Part V: The liberal way
- Machiavelli's reach for a nation
- John Locke defines the limits of knowledge and of government
- Voltaire's summons to civilization
- Rousseau seeks escape
- Jefferson's American quest
- Hegel's turn to "the divine idea on earth"
- Book Three: Paths to the future
- Part VI: The momentum of history: ways of social science
- A gospel and a science of progress: Condorcet to Comte
- Karl Marx's pursuit of destiny
- From nations to cultures: Spengler and Toynbee
- A world in revolution?
- Part VII: Sanctuaries of doubt
- "All history is biography": Carlyle and Emerson
- Kierkegaard turns from history to existence
- From truth to streams of consciousness with William James
- The solace and wonder of diversity
- The literature of bewilderment
- Part VIII: A world in process: the meaning in the seeking
- Acton's "Madonna of the future"
- Malraux's charms of anti-destiny
- Rediscovering time: Bergson's creative evolution
- Defining the mystery: Einstein's search for unity
