The myths we live by
Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose, she claims that myths are neither lies nor mere stories but a network of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2003.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429714506719 |
Table of Contents:
- How myths work
- Our place in the world
- Progress, science and modernity
- Thought has many forms
- The aims of reduction
- Dualistic dilemmas
- Motives, materialism and megalomania
- What is action
- Tidying the inner scene : why memes?
- The sleep of reason produces monsters
- Getting rid of the ego
- Cultural evolution?
- Selecting the selectors
- Is reason sex-linked?
- The journey from freedom to desolation
- Biotechnology and the yuk factor
- The new alchemy
- The supernatural engineer
- Heaven and earth, an awkward history
- Science looks both ways
- Are you an animal?
- Problems about parsimony
- Denying animal consciousness
- Beasts versus the biosphere?
- Some practical dilemmas
- Problems of living with otherness
- Changing ideas of wildness
