Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World Book

	A Personal Note to the Reader
Bk. 1	An Ancient Heritage
Pt. I	The Way of Prophets: A Higher Authority
1	From Seer to Prophet: Moses' Test of Obedience	5
2	A Covenanting God: Isaiah's Test of Faith	8
3	Struggles of the Believer: Job	11
4	A World Self-Explained: Evil in the East	14
Pt. II	The Way of Philosophers: A Wondrous Instrument Within
5	Socrates' Discovery of Ignorance	21
6	The Life in the Spoken Word	33
7	Plato's Other-World of Ideas	37
8	Paths to Utopia: Virtues Writ Large	43
9	Aristotle: An Outsider in Athens	47
10	On Paths of Common Sense	51
11	Aristotle's God for a Changeful World	57
Pt. III	The Christian Way: Experiments in Community
12	Fellowship of the Faithful: The Church	63
13	Islands of Faith: Monasteries	71
14	The Way of Disputation: Universities	81
15	Varieties of the Protestant Way: Erasmus, Luther, Calvin	91
Bk. 2	Communal Search
Pt. IV	Ways of Discovery: In Search of Experience
16	The Legacy of Homer: Myth and the Heroic Past	107
17	Herodotus and the Birth of History	111
18	Thucydides Creates a Political Science	119
19	From Myth to Literature: Virgil	123
20	Thomas More's New Paths to Utopia	129
21	Francis Bacon's Vision of Old Idols and New Dominions	132
22	From the Soul to the Self: Descartes's Island Within	139
Pt. V	The Liberal Way
23	Machiavelli's Reach for a Nation	149
24	John Locke Defines the Limits of Knowledge and of Government	153
25	Voltaire's Summons to Civilization	160
26	Rousseau Seeks Escape	167
27	Jefferson's American Quest	171
28	Hegel's Turn to "The Divine Idea on Earth"	174
Bk. 3	Paths to the Future
Pt. VI	The Momentum of History: Ways of Social Science
29	A Gospel and a Science of Progress: Condorcet to Comte	183
30	Karl Marx's Pursuit of Destiny	190
31	From Nations to Cultures: Spengler and Toynbee	194
32	A World in Revolution?	201
Pt. VII	Sanctuaries of Doubt
33	"All History Is Biography": Carlyle and Emerson	207
34	Kierkegaard Turns from History to Existence	213
35	From Truth to Streams of Consciousness with William James	218
36	The Solace and Wonder of Diversity	221
37	The Literature of Bewilderment	228
Pt. VIII	A World in Process: The Meaning in the Seeking
38	Acton's "Madonna of the Future"	235
39	Malraux's Charms of Anti-Destiny	240
40	Rediscovering Time: Bergson's Creative Evolution	245
41	Defining the Mystery: Einstein's Search for Unity	250
	Some Reference Notes	261
	Acknowledgments	279
	Index	281