Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions How Tales about Love, Sex, Races, Gods and Progress Affect Our Lives and Earth's Splendor
Indeed, it focuses on topics that have fascinated people from all places and historical periods since times immemorial: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? Are we progressing, and will we thrive? It does this by integrating in a unique fashion information from ancient Greek, Sumerian, Hind...
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Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2022, 2022
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2022 |
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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