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 environ ment are as compelling to us today as they were to our primitive ancestors. Throughout our history we have developed paradigms of thought that have attempte...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1984, 1984
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1984 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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