Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge / / Julius Thomas Fraser.
"Only a wayfarer born under unruly stars would attempt to put into practice in our epoch of proliferating knowledge the Heraclitean dictum that `men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed.'" Thus begins this remarkable interdisciplinary study of time by a maste...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CAPTION TO THE PAPERBACK COVER
- CONTENTS
- THE ARGUMENTS OF TIME. Foreword to the Second Edition
- ASCENT—BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE The Glass Wall
- I THE INTELLECTUAL QUEST
- II THE EMPIRICAL SEARCH
- III THE SEEKER
- PART TWO Images in Heaven and on Earth
- IV THE ROOTS OF TIME IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD
- V TIME CONTAINED: COSMOLOGIES
- VI TIME EXTENDED: LIFE
- PART THREE The Mind of the Matter
- VII THE ORGAN OF TIME SENSE
- VIII OUT OF THE DEPTHS
- PART FOUR Collective Greatness
- IX EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE TRUE
- X RELIGION, POLITICS, AND THE GOOD
- XI ARTS, LETTERS, AND THE BEAUTIFUL
- XII TIME AS CONFLICT
- Abbreviations for Works Frequently Quoted
- Notes and References
- AUTHOR INDEX
- SUBJECT INDEX