Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions
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Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions
How Tales about Love, Sex, Races, Gods and Progress Affect Our Lives and Earth's Splendor
Diogo, Rui
Springer International Publishing AG
12/2021
863
Dura
Inglês
9783319704005
15 a 20 dias
1490
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Preface.- 1. A brief history of the quest for purpose in life, from the Greeks to modern times, including Darwin.- 2. How did our tendency to ask why-questions and to search for final purposes and goals evolve?.- 3. How teleology impacts our daily lives, from quests on purpose in life to religion, conspiracy theories, romantic love and "meant to be".- 4. How teleological stories are linked to racism, Freud's just-so-stories, eugenics, and the second world war.- 5. How teleological narratives and the notion of 'chain of being' are related to colonialism.- 6. How teleological plots and the notion of 'chain of being' are associated to animal abuse.- 7. It is much more than religion: idealism as a case study of a widespread teleological narrative.- 8. Don't ask why, ask how - towards an unbiased, more rational non-teleological science and a fulfilling life without purpose.- References.- Index.
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Life purpose;Teleology;Human behavior;Human behavioral evolution;human evolution;racism;teleology racism;colonialism chain of being;colonialism;eugenics;animal abuse;Why-questions
Preface.- 1. A brief history of the quest for purpose in life, from the Greeks to modern times, including Darwin.- 2. How did our tendency to ask why-questions and to search for final purposes and goals evolve?.- 3. How teleology impacts our daily lives, from quests on purpose in life to religion, conspiracy theories, romantic love and "meant to be".- 4. How teleological stories are linked to racism, Freud's just-so-stories, eugenics, and the second world war.- 5. How teleological narratives and the notion of 'chain of being' are related to colonialism.- 6. How teleological plots and the notion of 'chain of being' are associated to animal abuse.- 7. It is much more than religion: idealism as a case study of a widespread teleological narrative.- 8. Don't ask why, ask how - towards an unbiased, more rational non-teleological science and a fulfilling life without purpose.- References.- Index.
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