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The meaning of human existence / Edward O. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Edward O., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 207 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- Summary:
- In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species and posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way.
- Contents:
- 1. The reason we exist: The meaning of meaning
- Solving the riddle of the human species
- Evolution and our inner conflict
- 2. The unity of knowledge: The new enlightenment
- The all-importance of the humanities
- The driving force of social evolution
- 3. Humanity lost in a pheromone world
- The superorganisms
- Why microbes rule the galaxy
- A portrait of E.T.
- The collapse of biodiversity
- 4. Idols of the mind: Instinct
- Religion
- Free will
- 5. A human future: Alone and free in the universe.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780871401007
- 0871401002
- OCLC:
- 884665106
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