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Prophets of the West: An Introduction to the Philosophy of History

By John Edward Sullivan

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Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Year
1970
ISBN
0030831849
Language
english
Format
PDF
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44 MB (45794033 bytes)
Pages
xiv+305\324
Time added
2022-06-29 18:15:04

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FOREWORD, v PREFACE, ix PART ONE | THE METAMORPHOSES of AUGUSTINE’S CITY of GOD, 1 • Chapter One | THE CITY OF GOD AND THE CITY OF MAN: Augustine and Vico, 3 The City of God: Augustine, 4; The City of Man: Vico, 10 • Chapter Two | THE PHILOSOPHIES OF PROGRESS: Turgot to Herder, 21 Voltaire, 22; Turgot-Condorcet, 23; British Exponents of Progress, 27; Kant-Herder, 28 • Chapter Three | THE DIALECTIC OF HISTORY: Hegel and Marx, 38 The Dialectical Unfolding of Spirit: The Hegelian Synthesis, 39; The Real Dialectic of History: The Marxist Critique, 47 • Chapter Four | THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORY: Comte and Spencer, 64 The Evolution of Historical Humanity: The Comtean Synthesis 66; The Comprehensive Evolution: The Spencerian Critique, 73 • Summary, 85 PART TWO | HISTORICISM, COMPLETE and INCOMPLETE, 89 • Chapter Five | CRITICAL HISTORIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS: Ranke to Rickert, 91 Critical Historians 92; Critical Philosophers, 97 • Chapter Six | UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF HISTORY: Wilhelm Dilthey, 104 History and Understanding, 106; Meaning and History, 112 • Chapter Seven | PHILOSOPHY-HISTORY: Benedetto Croce, 123 The Idealistic Logic, 125; The New Historiography, 127; The Dialectic of Progress, 133 • Chapter Eight | CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY-HISTORY: Robin Collingwood, 138 The New Historicist Logic, 139; A Critical Philosophy of History, 142; Progress and History, 150 • Summary, 157 PART THREE | THE RHYTHMS of HISTORY, 163 • Chapter Nine | THE ORGANIC LOGIC OF HISTORY: Oswald Spengler, 165 Physiognomic and the World-as-History, 187; Cultures: Life Cycles and Prime Symbols, 170; The Fate of the West, 175 • Chapter Ten | THE WHEEL OF CIVILIZATIONS: Arnold Toynbee, 179 The Cycle of Civilizations, 181; Progress and Religion, 191 • Chapter Eleven | CONTENTS THE RHYTHM OF THE SUPERSYSTEMS: Pitirim Sorokin, 200 The Sociocultural World, 202; The Rythm of the Supersystems, 208; The Future of the West, 215 • Chapter Twelve | STYLES AND SUPERSTYLES: Alfred Kroeber, 220 The Autonomy of the Cultural Order, 222; Comparative Study of Civilizations, 224 • Summary, 235 PART FOUR | THE ASCENT of HISTORY, 243 • Chapter Thirteen | HUMANISTIC EVOLUTIONISM: Julian Huxley, 245 Progress and Evolution Revisited, 245; The Monistic Evolutionary Hypothesis, 249; Biological Evolution in Action, 251; Psychosocial Evolution, 254; The Religion of the Future, 257 • Chapter Fourteen | CHRISTIAN EVOLUTIONISM: Teilhard de Chardin, 263 Cosmogenesis and the Evolution of Matter, 264; Biogenesis and the Biosphere, 268; Noogenesis and the Noosphere, 271; The Future of Man 277; The Christian Phenomenon, 281 • Summary, 285 INDEX, 291

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