Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: THE RISE OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE -- ONE: The Discovery of Science: Greece or the East? -- TWO: Why the Greeks? -- THREE: Bios Theoretikos -- FOUR: Philosophy's Rise from Sensations to Wisdom -- FIVE: Knowledge and Opinion -- SIX: Theoretical Features of the Object of Scientific Cognition -- SEVEN: Theoretical Justification -- EIGHT: Theoretical Proof -- NINE: Types of Science -- Part Two: THE HELLENISTIC DEFORMATION OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE -- TEN: Knowledge or Philosophy for the Sake of Praxis -- 1. Stoic Modifications to Philosophy -- 2. The Stoic Understanding of Philosophy -- 3. The Divisions of Philosophy -- 4. The Leading Science: Ethics or Physics? -- 5. Logic as a Science -- 6. Consequences of the Stoic Understanding of Philosophy -- ELEVEN: Neo-Platonism: An End Beyond Knowledge -- 1. From Philosophy to Mysticism in Plotinus -- 2. Theurgy in Place of Philosophy (Iamblichus) -- Part Three: PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY IN RELATION TO REVELATION -- TWELVE: Aversion to Pagan Authority -- THIRTEEN: Handmaiden to Theology -- FOURTEEN: Sacred Scripture and the Problem of Interpretation: The Sentences -- FIFTEEN: Metaphysics and Natural Theology -- SIXTEEN: Philosophy in the Service of Theology -- Part Four: SCIENCE: TOWARD TECHNOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY -- SEVENTEEN: The Problem of the Continuity of Science in the Middle Ages -- EIGHTEEN: The Problem of Experimental Science in the Middle Ages -- 1. Utility -- 2. Experiment -- 3. Inventions -- NINETEEN: The Mathematization of Scientific Knowledge -- TWENTY: The Influence of Nominalism -- Part Five: SCIENCE AS TECHNOLOGY -- TWENTY-ONE: The Quest for an Earthly Paradise -- TWENTY-TWO: The End of Knowledge: Complete Utilitarianism -- TWENTY-THREE: The Influence of the East -- 1. Hermeticism.

2. The Cabala -- TWENTY-FOUR: Science and Utopia: From the House of Solomon to the Royal Society -- TWENTY-FIVE: A New Model of Scientific Knowledge -- 1. Science without Causes? -- 2. Induction: From First Premises to the Syllogism -- 3. Experience and the Discovery of Nature's Secrets -- 4. Discovery and Marvels -- TWENTY-SIX: Philosophy and Gnosticism -- 1. What is Gnosticism? -- 2. The Way of Salvation -- 3. Gnosticism and German Idealism -- Part Six: THE TRANSFORMATION OF PHILOSOPHY INTO IDEOLOGY -- TWENTY-SEVEN: Ideas-Concepts-Impressions -- TWENTY-EIGHT: The War against Idols -- TWENTY-NINE: The Critique of Catholicism and Metaphysics -- THIRTY: Ideology and the New Social Order -- THIRTY-ONE: Ideology: The Evolution of the Concept -- Part Seven: TOWARD A NEW WORLD ORDER -- THIRTY-TWO: Kant: The World Before Reason's Tribunal -- THIRTY-THREE: Auguste Comte: Toward a New Age -- THIRTY-FOUR: Neopositivism at War with Metaphysics -- THIRTY-FIVE: Science and the New World Order or Science in the Service of Globalism -- Part Eight: THE PLACE OF SCIENCE IN CULTURE -- THIRTY-SIX: What is Culture? -- THIRTY-SEVEN: The Domains of Culture -- THIRTY-EIGHT: Ends, Limits, and Directions in the Growth of Science -- THIRTY-NINE: Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index of Works -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Index of Authors, Editors, and Translators -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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