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Chapter 1 Ancient Greece:Fountainhead of Western Culture 1

1.1 Homer's Epics 1

1.2 The Polis 4

1.3 Religion 6

1.4 Philosophy 10

1.5 Classical Philosophers 12

1.6 History 15

1.7 Poetry and Drama 16

1.8 The Heritage of the Greeks 19

Chapter 2 Ancient Rome:Pragmatic Rationality 20

2.1 Roman Law 20

2.2 Literature and Art 21

2.3 The Heritage of the Romans 24

Chapter 3 The Middle Ages:Duty of Conscience 25

3.1 The Rise of Christianity 25

3.2 Patristic Writers 29

3.3 Thomas Aquinas 35

Chapter 4 The Renaissance:Human Life in This World 38

4.1 The Italian Renaissance 38

4.2 The Northern European Renaissance 54

4.4 The Heritage of the Renaissance 57

Chapter 5 The Reformation:Split Within Western Christendom 62

5.1 Martin Luther 62

5.2 John Calvin 65

5.3 The Heritage of the Reformation 67

Chapter 6 Scientific Revolution:New Conception of the Universe 68

6.1 The Rise of Modern Science 68

6.2 Rationalism and Empiricism 74

6.3 New Political Theory 80

6.4 The Heritage of Seventeenth-century Culture 85

Chapter 7 The Enlightenment:Power of Reason 88

7.1 The Nature of the Enlightenment 88

7.2 Philosophy and Theology 91

7.3 Social Criticism 98

7.4 Emotion and Unreason 112

7.5 The Heritage of the Enlightenment 116

Chapter 8 The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution:Political and Economic Transformation 119

8.1 The French Revolution 119

8.2 The Heritage of the French Revolution 120

8.3 The Industrial Revolution 123

8.4 The Impact of the Industrial Revolution 124

Chapter 9 Romanticism:Fresh Insight into Human Experience 128

9.1 The Romantic Movement 128

9.2 Romantic Literature 133

9.3 The Romantic Social and Political Thought 146

9.4 The Heritage of Romanticism 158

Chapter 10 Socialism:Faith in Human Progress 162

10.1 Science and Technology 162

10.2 Social Sciences 167

10.3 Marxism 170

10.4 Darwinism 174

10.5 The Middle-class Moral Attitudes 183

10.6 The Heritage of Socialism 186

Chapter 11 Psychoanalysis:Discovering Man's Inner World 188

11.1 Philosophy 188

11.2 Social Sciences 194

11.3 Freudian Psychology 199

11.4 Natural Sciences 202

11.5 The Heritage of Fin de Si6cle Culture 204

Chapter 12 Contemporary Western World:Seeking a Meaningful Existence 209

12.1 The Legacy of War and Revolution 209

12.2 Natural Sciences 211

12.3 Social and Behavioral Sciences 218

12.4 Philosophy and Theology 228

12.5 The Heritage of the Twentieth Century 234

References 238

Index 240