CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES I, CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 17

SERIES IIA, ISLAM, VOLUME 6

 

 

WAYS TO GOD

 

Personal and Social At the Turn of the Millennia

 

The Iqbal Lecture, Lahore

 

 

by

GEORGE F. McLEAN

 

CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

PROLOGUE: Religion as Coming Home: The Iqbal Lecture

 

PART I. PROTO-PHILOSOPHIES AS WAYS TO GOD

 

Chapter I. Method: From the Structure of Consciousness to an Archeology of Ways to God

 

Chapter II. The Totemic Way to God: The Religious Base of Thought and Culture

 

Chapter III. Greek Myth as a Proto-Philosophical Way to God

 

Chapter IV. The Ritual Hindu Way to God as a Proto-Metaphysics

 

PART II. CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND MYSTICAL WAYS TO GOD

Chapter V. The Development of Greek and Judeo-Christian Philosophy: Bases for Ways to God

 

Chapter VI. Systematic Christian Philosophy as a Way to God

 

Chapter VII. Al-Ghaz~l§ and Mulla Sadra: Islamic Mystical and Existential Ways to God

 

PART III. CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL WAYS TO GOD

Chapter VIII. Human Subjectivity and Personal Ways to God

 

Chapter IX. Cultural Traditions and Civil Society as Social Ways to God

 

Chapter X. The Dialectic of Good and Evil: "Ultimate Concern" in History as a Way to God

 

APPENDIX I: The Structure of Development

by Jean Piaget

 

APPENDIX II. Moral Development at Different Age Levels

by Margaret Gorman

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS