Urn:oclc:877724506 Republisher_date 20120322235525 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120315011401 Scanner . Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Urn:lcp:passionofwestern00tarn:epub:448f61af-b064-4e75-ab95-5570e8847fec Extramarc UCLA Voyager Foldoutcount 0 Identifier passionofwestern00tarn Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3gx5d75p Isbn 9780345368096ĩ0020142 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL20720750M Openlibrary_edition
From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, Richard Tarnas described profound philosophical concepts simply, but without simplifying them. How we approach "the other," and how we approach each other, will shape everything, including out own evolving self and the cosmos in which we participate.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:50:34 Boxid IA175201 Boxid_2 CH120121115-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1. The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view. From 1980 to 1990, he wrote The Passion of the Western Mind, a narrative history of Western thought which became a best seller and continues to be a widely used text in universities throughout the world. He grew up in Michigan, where he studied Greek. Our world view and cosmology, which defines the context for everything else, is profoundly affected by the degree to which all out faculties–intellectual, imaginative, aesthetic, moral, emotional, somatic, spiritual, relational–enter the process of knowing. 'Richard Tarnas was born in 1950 in Geneva, Switzerland, of American parents. Tarnas is professor of philosophy and psychology at the California Institute of Integral. Perhaps we must go not only high and far but down and deep. Richard Theodore Tarnas (born February 21, 1950) is a cultural historian known for his books The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View and Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View. For the whole being, body and soul, mind and spirit, is implicated. But to understand life and the cosmos better, perhaps we are required to transform not only our minds but our hearts. “Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very tall cognitive ladder with graded hierarchical steps that represent successive developmental stages in which we solve increasingly challenging mental riddles, like advanced problems in a graduate exam in biochemistry or logic.
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