I suggest that Tarnas book narrates the history of Western.

Any way you read his outline, though, it's quite brilliant. Tarnas and the Western Mind 16 Adam's original sin, the recognized source of human alienation and mortality, became 'o felix culpa,' meaning 'o blessed sin, as it led to the birth of Christ as the second Adam, and the experience of God's forgiveness, love and redemptive grace. Richard Tarnas 1991 book, The Passion of the Western Mind, contains an implicit structure. Of course I could have read it in order, as Tarnas wrote it, with a fine, clear linearity straight from Greece to post-post-everything, but that's not the way that the collective unconscious of the western world has collaged these ideas together. Richard Tarnas is a Harvard-educated historian and professor of philosophy and psychology, and the author of The Passion of the Western Mind. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound. I finished that extended session somewhere round the Newtonian revision of physical laws, and had to go and lie down, brain fizzing too much. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEHere are the great minds of Western civilization and their. It's irresistible to dip in to double check on exactly what were the original classical neoplatonist beliefs, then follow the index to my hero Marsilio Ficino (Renaissance humanist philosopher, reviver of neoplatonism and the motivator of Botticelli), then absentmindedly amble along into some of the practical reasons for the change of consciousness (artillery clock compass) in western thought during Botticelli's working lifetime.

I never thought before that a modular approach to a subject – every section kept firmly within its brief allotment of pages – was any way to learn, but Tarnas redeems modularity.

Tarnas passion of the western mind