The Need For a Sacred Science | Seyyed Hossein Nasr | Taylor & Francis

ABSTRACT

The meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to us today.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part |1 pages

PART ONE The World of the Spirit— A Metaphysical Context for the Cultivation of Sacred Science

chapter 1|4 pages

God Is Reality

chapter 2|5 pages

Self-Awareness and Ultimate Selfhood: The Role of the Sacred Science of the Soul

chapter 3|9 pages

Time—The Moving Image of Eternity

part |1 pages

PART TWO The Unity of the Divine Stratosphere— The Diversity of the Human Atmosphere

chapter 5|4 pages

One is the Spirit and Many its Human Reflections— Thoughts on the Human Condition Today

chapter 5|8 pages

The Philosophia Perennis and the Study of Religion

part |1 pages

PART THREE Science: Traditional and Modern

chapter 6|12 pages

Western Science and Asian Cultures

chapter 7|11 pages

The Traditional Sciences

chapter 8|4 pages

The Spiritual Significance of Nature

part |1 pages

PART FOUR Tradition, Sacred Science and the Modern Predicament

chapter 9|9 pages

Sacred Science and the Environmental Crisis— An Islamic Perspective

chapter 10|5 pages

The Concept of Human Progress Through Material Evolution: A Traditional Critique

chapter 11|6 pages

Reflections on the Theological Modernism of Hans Küng