Philosophical essays: from ancient creed to technological man.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Technology and responsibility: reflections on the new tasks of ethics.; title: Jewish and Christian elements in philosophy: their share in the emergence of the modern mind.; title: Seventeenth century and after: the meaning of the scientific and technological revolution.; title: Socio-economic knowledge and ignorance of goals.; title: Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects.; title: Against the stream: comments on the definition and redefinition of death.; title: Biological engineering; title: a preview; title: Contemporary problems in ethics from a Jewish perspective.; title: Biological foundations of individuality.; title: Spinoza and the theory of organism.; title: Sight and thought: a review of "visual thinking."; title: Change and permanence: on the possibility of understanding history.; title: The gnostic syndrome: typology of its thought, imagination, and mood.; title: The hymn of the pearl: case study of a symbol, and the claims for a Jewish origin of gnosticism.; title: Myth and mysticism: a study of objectification and interiorization in religious thought.; title: Origen's metaphysics of free will, fall, and salvation: a "divine comedy" of the universe.; title: The soul in gnosticism and Plotinus.; title: The abyss of the will: philosophical meditations on the seventh chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans.