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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777463003321

Autore

Barnes Michael Horace

Titolo

Stages of thought [[electronic resource] ] : the co-evolution of religious thought and science / / Michael Horace Barnes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-280-83414-5

0-19-535083-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

215

291.1/75

Soggetti

Religion and science

Religion and science - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Culture and Cognition; 2 Addressing the Critics; 3 Cognitive Styles in Primitive Cultures; 4 Archaic Thought, Preliterate and Literate; 5 The Axial Age and the Classical Style of Thought; 6 Philosophy, Religion, and Science in Western Antiquity; 7 The Decline and Recovery of Classical Rationality in the West; 8 Early Modern Models of Reality in Science and Religion; 9 The Method of Modern Empirical Science; 10 Religious Responses to Modern Science; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Stages of Thought, Michael Barnes examines a pattern of cognitive development that has evolved over thousands of years--a pattern manifest in both science and religion. He describes how the major world cultures built upon our natural human language skills to add literacy, logic, and, now, a highly critical self-awareness. In tracing the histories of both scientific and religious thought, Barnes shows why we think the way that we do today. Although religious and scientific modes of thought are often portrayed as contradictory-one is highly rational while the other appeals to tradition and fa