The Meaning of Human ExistenceThe Meaning of Human Existence
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Current format, Book, 2014, First edition, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formatsA 21st-century philosophical argument against mechanistic views of human life outlines expansive and advanced theories on human behavior to consider how humans are supremely different from all other species. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of On Human Nature. 75,000 first printing.
A twenty-first-century philosophical argument against mechanistic views of human life outlines expansive and advanced theories on human behavior to consider how humans are supremely different from all other species.
Wilson presents readers with a scientific and philosophical examination of the nature of human existence. The author has organized the fifteen chapters that make up the main body of his text in five sections devoted to the future of humanity, instinct, religion, and free will, humanity and other worlds, the unity of human knowledge, the enlightenment, the humanities, and social evolution, and the reason we exist. Edward O. Wilson is a retired faculty member of Harvard University, Massachusetts and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Meaning of Human ExistenceThe Social Conquest of EarthNew York TimesThe Meaning of Human ExistenceThe human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham.
National Book Award Finalist.
A twenty-first-century philosophical argument against mechanistic views of human life outlines expansive and advanced theories on human behavior to consider how humans are supremely different from all other species.
Wilson presents readers with a scientific and philosophical examination of the nature of human existence. The author has organized the fifteen chapters that make up the main body of his text in five sections devoted to the future of humanity, instinct, religion, and free will, humanity and other worlds, the unity of human knowledge, the enlightenment, the humanities, and social evolution, and the reason we exist. Edward O. Wilson is a retired faculty member of Harvard University, Massachusetts and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Meaning of Human ExistenceThe Social Conquest of EarthNew York TimesThe Meaning of Human ExistenceThe human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham.
National Book Award Finalist.
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