The Myths We Live By

• Author(s): Mary Midgley,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 208
• ISBN_10: 1134392532
  ISBN_13: 9781134392537
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities , History / Civilization , Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy , Philosophy / History & Surveys / General , Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern , Philosophy / Criticism , Reference / Signs & Symbols , Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Social Science / Folklore & Mythology ,

Description:... 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.