Barash David P. Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are 9780190673710

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Автор: Barash David P.
Название: Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are
ISBN: 9780190673710
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Классификация:

Философия науки

Популяризация науки

ISBN-10: 0190673710
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 216
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 01.08.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 235 x 169 x 20
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Описание: Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of Gods eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint--a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance--is as dangerous as it is false.

In Through a Glass Brightly, noted scientist David P. Barash explores the process by which science has, throughout time, cut humanity down to size, and how humanity has responded. A good paradigm is a tough thing to lose, especially when its replacement leaves us feeling more vulnerable and less
special. And yet, as science has progressed, we find ourselves--like it or not--bereft of many of our most cherished beliefs, confronting an array of paradigms lost.

Barash models his argument around a set of old and new paradigms that define humanitys place in the universe. This new set of paradigms range from provocative revelations as to whether human beings are well designed, whether the universe has somehow been established with our species in mind
(the so-called anthropic principle), whether life itself is inherently fragile, and whether Homo sapiens might someday be genetically combined with other species (and what that would mean for our self-image). Rather than seeing ourselves through a glass darkly, science enables us to perceive our
strengths and weaknesses brightly and accurately at last, so that paradigms lost becomes wisdom gained. The result is a bracing, remarkably hopeful view of who we really are.

Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are, Barash David P.