Stages of thought : the co-evolution of religious thought and science /
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 highl...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Culture and cognition
- Addressing the critics
- Cognitive styles in primitive cultures
- Archaic thought, preliterate and literate
- The Axial Age and the classical style of thought
- Philosophy, religion, and science in Western antiquity
- The decline and recovery of classical rationality in the West
- Early modern models of reality in science and religion
- The method of modern empirical science
- Religious responses to modern science.