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 Siecle 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