This outstanding work on the history of philosophy and ideas, written by world-renowned philosopher, historian of philosophy, and teacher John Herman Randall, Jr., is now available for the first time in paperback. Long acclaimed a contemporary classic, The Making of the Modern Mind displays the comprehensiveness, clarity of style, balance, and wit that came to characterize all of Dr. Randall's works.From the medieval worldview to the modern outlook, this work presents a sweeping intellectual history in one volume. The emphasis is on ideas in their historical setting, on how modes of thought emerge, grow, influence and react to one another, and sometimes, when no longer useful, even die. The result is a grand synthesis of the main currents in western thought, bringing together religion, philosophy, politics, science, economics, literature and the arts, and the social and behavioral sciences -- all the diverse systems man has devised in his effort to understand, interpret, and shape human experience.Whether as a text or as a supplementary reading, this distinguished volume will complement a wide variety of courses in philosophy, history, and contemporary civilization. It can be read with pleasure by all those interested in the history of man and ideas.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Book I
The Intellectual Outlook of Medieval Christendom
Chapter I. The Coming of Age of the Western Peoples.
Chapter II. The World as the Scene of the Drama of Salvation
Chapter III. The Chief End of Man-The Enjoyment of Eternal Life
Chapter IV. The Embodiment-The City of God
Chapter V. The Embodiment-Lay Society
Book II
The New world of the Renaissance
Chapter VI. The New Interests of the Modern Age-The Natural Man
Chapter VII. The Religious Reaction-The Revolt from the Medieval Church
Chapter VIII. The Revolt from Feudalism and a Unified Christendom
Chapter IX. The New Interests of the Modern Age-The World of Nature
Chapter X. The New Scene of Human Life
Book III
The Order of Nature-The Development of Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Chapter XI. The Newtonian World-Machine
Chapter XII. The Religion of Reason
Chapter XIII. The Sciences of Man-The Sciences of Human Nature and of Business
Chapter XIV. The Science of Man-The Science of Government
Chapter XV. The Mortality of Reasonableness-Humanitarianism
Book IV
The Growing World-Thought and Aspiration in the Last Hundred Years
Chapter XVI. The Romantic Protest Against the Age of Reason
Chapter XVII. The Conflict of Social Ideals to 1848
Chapter XVIII The World Conceived as a Process of Growth and Evolution
Chapter XIX. The Science of Man in the Growing World
Chapter XX. Religion in the Growing World
Chapter XXI. Philosophic Reactions to the Growing World of Mechanism and Naturalism
Chapter XXII. Social Ideals in the Growing World
From the medieval worldview to the modern outlook, this work presents a sweeping intellectual history in one volume. The emphasis is on ideas in their historical setting, on how modes of thought emerge, grow, influence and react to one another, and die. The result is a grand synthesis of the main currents in western thought, bringing together religion, philosophy, politics, science, economics, literature and the arts, and the social and behavioral sciences- all the diverse systems man has devised in his effort to understand, interpret, and shape human experience.
Table of contents:
Introduction
Book I
The Intellectual Outlook of Medieval Christendom
Chapter I. The Coming of Age of the Western Peoples.
Chapter II. The World as the Scene of the Drama of Salvation
Chapter III. The Chief End of Man-The Enjoyment of Eternal Life
Chapter IV. The Embodiment-The City of God
Chapter V. The Embodiment-Lay Society
Book II
The New world of the Renaissance
Chapter VI. The New Interests of the Modern Age-The Natural Man
Chapter VII. The Religious Reaction-The Revolt from the Medieval Church
Chapter VIII. The Revolt from Feudalism and a Unified Christendom
Chapter IX. The New Interests of the Modern Age-The World of Nature
Chapter X. The New Scene of Human Life
Book III
The Order of Nature-The Development of Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Chapter XI. The Newtonian World-Machine
Chapter XII. The Religion of Reason
Chapter XIII. The Sciences of Man-The Sciences of Human Nature and of Business
Chapter XIV. The Science of Man-The Science of Government
Chapter XV. The Mortality of Reasonableness-Humanitarianism
Book IV
The Growing World-Thought and Aspiration in the Last Hundred Years
Chapter XVI. The Romantic Protest Against the Age of Reason
Chapter XVII. The Conflict of Social Ideals to 1848
Chapter XVIII The World Conceived as a Process of Growth and Evolution
Chapter XIX. The Science of Man in the Growing World
Chapter XX. Religion in the Growing World
Chapter XXI. Philosophic Reactions to the Growing World of Mechanism and Naturalism
Chapter XXII. Social Ideals in the Growing World
From the medieval worldview to the modern outlook, this work presents a sweeping intellectual history in one volume. The emphasis is on ideas in their historical setting, on how modes of thought emerge, grow, influence and react to one another, and die. The result is a grand synthesis of the main currents in western thought, bringing together religion, philosophy, politics, science, economics, literature and the arts, and the social and behavioral sciences- all the diverse systems man has devised in his effort to understand, interpret, and shape human experience.