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Prentice-Hall
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Table of Contents

Technology and responsibility: reflections on the new tasks of ethics.
Jewish and Christian elements in philosophy: their share in the emergence of the modern mind.
Seventeenth century and after: the meaning of the scientific and technological revolution.
Socio-economic knowledge and ignorance of goals.
Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects.
Against the stream: comments on the definition and redefinition of death.
Biological engineering
a preview
Contemporary problems in ethics from a Jewish perspective.
Biological foundations of individuality.
Spinoza and the theory of organism.
Sight and thought: a review of "visual thinking."
Change and permanence: on the possibility of understanding history.
The gnostic syndrome: typology of its thought, imagination, and mood.
The hymn of the pearl: case study of a symbol, and the claims for a Jewish origin of gnosticism.
Myth and mysticism: a study of objectification and interiorization in religious thought.
Origen's metaphysics of free will, fall, and salvation: a "divine comedy" of the universe.
The soul in gnosticism and Plotinus.
The abyss of the will: philosophical meditations on the seventh chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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Englewood Cliffs, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
192
Library of Congress
B29 .J595

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 349 p.
Number of pages
349

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Open Library
OL5427352M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0136622216
LCCN
73022168
OCLC/WorldCat
797833
LibraryThing
959679
Goodreads
2861871

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OL1728715W

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