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 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
History
1 online resource (viii, 334 pages)
9780195350838, 9781280834141, 0195350839, 1280834145
428818219
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
English