Outline of a New Philosophy |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Copernicus Kepler Galileo Toricelli and atmospheric pressure | 20 |
Newtons concept of mass as an example | 50 |
certainty | 85 |
religion and philosophy | 101 |
How the organism reacts to being driven to extremes | 148 |
Psychotherapy | 154 |
The theory of evolution modified for a parallel framework | 165 |
The uniquely stable experience of Jewish history as a special example | 207 |
Modern times | 219 |
Nazi Germany as illustrating the trends of modern Western history | 225 |
The democratic ethos the sleeper of modern history and English | 232 |
confronted us with a basic choice | 242 |
Education for a democratic ethos today | 261 |
Free communication in a democratic society | 269 |
Factors giving an institution stability and form within a culture | 278 |
Common terms and phrases
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