Chapter 1 Ancient Greece:Fountainhead of Western Culture

1.1 Homer's Epics

1.2 The Polis

1.3 Religion

1.4 Philosophy

1.5 Classical Philosophers

1.6 History

1.7 Poetry and Drama

1.8 The Heritage of the Greeks

Chapter 2 Ancient Rome:Pragmatic Rationality

2.1 Roman Law

2.2 Literature and Art

2.3 The Heritage of the Romans

Chapter 3 The Middle Ages:Duty of Conscience

3.1 The Rise of Christianity

3.2 Patristic Writers

3.3 Thomas Aquinas

Chapter 4 The Renaissance:Human Life in This World

4.1 The Italian Renaissance

4.2 The Northern European Renaissance

4.4 The Heritage of the Renaissance

Chapter 5 The Reformation:Split Within Western Christendom

5.1 Martin Luther

5.2 John Calvin

5.3 The Heritage of the Reformation

Chapter 6 Scientific Revolution:New Conception of the Universe

6.1 The Rise of Modern Science

6.2 Rationalism and Empiricism

6.3 New Political Theory

6.4 The Heritage of Seventeenth-century Culture

Chapter 7 The Enlightenment:Power of Reason

7.1 The Nature of the Enlightenment

7.2 Philosophy and Theology

7.3 Social Criticism

7.4 Emotion and Unreason

7.5 The Heritage of the Enlightenment

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

8.1 The French Revolution

8.2 The Heritage of the French Revolution

8.3 The Industrial Revolution

8.4 The Impact of the Industrial Revolution

Chapter 9 Romanticism:Fresh Insight into Human Experience

9.1 The Romantic Movement

9.2 Romantic Literature

9.3 The Romantic Social and Political Thought

9.4 The Heritage of Romanticism

Chapter 10 Socialism:Faith in Human Progress

10.1 Science and Technology

10.2 Social Sciences

10.3 Marxism

10.4 Darwinism

10.5 The Middle-class Moral Attitudes

10.6 The Heritage of Socialism

Chapter 11 Psychoanalysis:Discovering Man's Inner World

11.1 Philosophy

11.2 Social Sciences

11.3 Freudian Psychology

11.4 Natural Sciences

11.5 The Heritage of Fin de Si6cle Culture

Chapter 12 Contemporary Western World:Seeking a Meaningful Existence

12.1 The Legacy of War and Revolution

12.2 Natural Sciences

12.3 Social and Behavioral Sciences

12.4 Philosophy and Theology

12.5 The Heritage of the Twentieth Century

References

Index