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Topics

• The Big Questions
• Ancient world-views
• Classical world-views
• Pre-renaissance world-view
• Appeal to nature - the reign of law
• Order in nature - the rule of reason
• The Darwinian world-view
• Science and human nature
• The new physics
• Our dynamic Universe
• The idea of progress
• The idea of emergence
• The influence of neuroscience
• Building a personal world-view

Subtopics – Pre-renaissance world-view

• The universe according to Ptolemy

• Dante's vision of an ordered universe

• The revival and revision of Greek learning

• The Baconian world-view