Ariadne's Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking

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Palgrave Macmillan, 24 juil. 1989 - 584 pages
Preface - PART I: Nature's Constraints: 'What are the Limits to Growth?' - The Future: A Search for Values - Energy and Exponentials - The Economics of Spaceship Earth - Our Environmental Charge Account Comes Due - PART II: The Human Animal: 'What is Human Nature?' - The Emergence of Human Nature - The Cultural Spectrum - Religion and Worldviews - On Acquiring a Worldview - PART III: Possessive Individualism: 'Whence Comes This Western Worldview?' - From God to Man: Origins of the Western Worldview - The Cult of Efficiency - Alienation - The Loss of the Sacred - PART IV: New Modes of Thinking: 'Where Do We Begin?' - Rethinking Economics - Defusing the Global Powder Keg - Politics: Worldviews in Action - Nuclear 'Defence' - or Conflict Resolution? - Humankind at the Crossroads - Notes - Index

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a Search for Values 333
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WHAT ARE THE LIMITS
29
The Economics of Spaceship Earth
65
Our Environmental Credit Card Account Becomes Due
98
The Cultural Spectrum
156
Religions and Worldviews
182
On Acquiring a Worldview
213
WHENCE COMES
243
Rethinking Economics
332
Apples Oranges Pacemakers Mothers Love
343
Toward the Future
353
Some Concluding Thoughts
363
Worldviews in Action
401
Nuclear Defence or Conflict Resolution?
436
Humankind at the Crossroads
471
Notes and References
507

The Cult of Efficiency
273
the Loss of the Sacred
303
The Rise of Militant Nationalism
318

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