I. The Greek world view. The archetypal forms ; Ideas and gods ; The evolution of the Greek mind from Homer to Plato ; The philosopher's quest and the universal mind ; The problem of the planets ; Aristotle and the Greek balance ; The dual legacy

II. The transformation of the classical era. Crosscurrents of the Hellenistic matrix ; The emergence of Christianity

III. The Christian world view. Judaic monotheism and the divinization of history ; Classical elements and the Platonic inheritance ; The conversion of the pagan mind ; Contraries within the Christian vision ; Exultant Christianity ; Dualistic Christianity ; Further contraries and the Augustinian legacy ; The Holy Spirit and its vicissitudes ; Rome and Catholicism ; The Virgin Mary and the mother church ; A summing up

IV. The transformation of the Medieval era. The scholastic awakening ; The quest of Thomas Aquinas ; Further developments in the High Middle Ages ; Critical scholasticism and Ockham's razor ; The rebirth of classical humanism ; At the threshold

V. The modern world view. The Renaissance ; The Reformation ; The scientific revolution ; The philosophical revolution ; Foundations of the modern world view ; Ancients and moderns ; The triumph of secularism

VI. The transformation of the modern era. The changing image of the human from Copernicus through Freud ; The self-critique of the modern mind ; The crisis of modern science ; Romanticism and its fate ; The postmodern mind ; At the millennium

VII. Epilogue. The post-Copernican double bind ; Knowledge and the unconscious ; The evolution of world views ; Bringing it all back home

Chronology.