The encapsulated man : an interdisciplinary essay on the search for meaning /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Van Nostrand,
[1964]
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| Series: | Insight book ;
no. 16. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction and overview
- Part I: The dilemma
- 2. Man's search for reality
- Four approaches to reality
- Psycho-epistemological analysis of the special disciplines of knowledge
- Scientific and religious knowledge
- 3. The problem of encapsulation
- Encapsulation and ultimate reality
- Encapsulation and finite reality
- Why we are all encapsulated
- 4. The encapsulation of science and logical positivism
- A synthesis of scientific methods of observation
- On scientific theory
- Logical positivism
- 5. The problem of meaninglessness
- The relativity of values
- Thought control
- Meaninglessness and philosophic awareness
- Part II: The way out?
- 6. The development of meaning
- The psychobiological basis of meaning
- The concept of structure
- 7. Meaning, value, and personality
- The psycho-epistemological profile and the value hierarchy
- Psychology, existentialism, and religion: toward a common theory of man
- 8. Symbol, myth, and reality
- Sign and symbol
- The views of Jung, Cassirer, and Tillich
- The philosophy of "As if"
- 9. The unencapsulated man
- Boundless mind
- Levels of awareness
- Educating the generalist
- The unencapsulated reality image.