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The Making of the Modern Mind: A Survey of the Intellectual Background of the Present Age

John Herman Randall

November, 1976
Paper, 1 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-04143-0
$53.50 / £31.50

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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

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About the Author

John Herman Randall, Jr., is Frederick J. E. Woodbridge Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Columbia University. He is the author of many works in philosophy and intellectual history, among them Aristotle, The Career of Philosophy, Vols. I and II, How Philosophy Uses its Past, Nature and Historical Experience and Philosophy After Darwin: Chapters for The Career of Philosophy, Volume III, and Other Essays, all published by Columbia University Press.

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