A Question of the Sanities : Ecology and the Human Conundrum of Remorse / Michael Charles Tobias.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobias, Michael, author.

Series:

Human evolution.

Human Evolution, Biological and Cultural Domains Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2024]

Summary:

"Every new work (both fiction and nonfiction) by Tobias and Morrison is a cause for gratitude and celebration. Their latest book, A Question of the Sanities: Ecology and the Human Conundrum of Remorse, is a penetrating treatise of essential, perennial ideas, and insightful new ones. Grounded in the heartbreaking realties that the biosphere is unraveling with unrelenting speed, each of the 31 essays illuminate an aspect of human biophilia and biophobia, our confoundingly mixed relationships with the greater world of other living beings. This work is unique because it dares to ask the questions that might save us, such as: "In the persistent struggle between violence and unconditional love ... what can we actually manifest that is something new and thoroughly refreshed?" ... To read this indispensable book is to be at once educated, delighted, and transformed -- not only intellectually but also in our heart of hearts that calls for a deeper and more meaningful existence"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Prologue

Preface

Gauging the Biological Future

Defaults in the Natural Sciences

The Pónosophere

A Moral Tightrope

Endnotes

Chapter 1

The Tumult

Ecological Divergences

Chapter 2

Windows on the Netherlands

Eclipse of the Wild

Chapter 3

Entangled Perception

Biełaviežskaja Pušča

Chapter 4

Fabled Ethologies

The World of Ivan Krylov

Chapter 5

Imagination in the City

Central Park

Ecological Primacy

Natural Law

Chapter 6

Political Discourse

Interlaced Scales

Real Time Evolution

Chapter 7

Intersections

Structural Evolution

Collision Points

Chapter 8

To Begin Anew

The Measure of Ideologies

Deep Collective History

Chapter 9

The Paradox of False Consciousness

Psychological Trails

Other Identities

Chapter 10

The Ecology of Insanity

Compounding Variables

Clarifying the Culpable

Biological Opinion

Chapter 11

Allemansrätten

Ecological Demarcations

Numeric Ghosts

Chapter 12

Systemic Improbabilities

Ethical Markers

Hybrid Ethics

Compound Expressive Potential

Chapter 13

"Wir Setzen Uns Mit Tränen Nieder"

Bach's "Saint Matthew Passion"

Chapter 14

The Conflicted

The Bentham Paradox

Balancing Acts of Nature

The Direness of Data

Chapter 15

Proxies of Continuation

Substitution Ethics

Brute Force Assessment

Testing Hypotheses

Chapter 16

The Incongruity After the Fact

Scenarios of Optimization

Theories of Confluence

Maimonides and Darwin

Human Exceptionalism

Chapter 17

The Pendulum of Proverbs and Quodlibets

Heritable Heresies.

The Noble Callings

Chapter 18

Causality or Correlation?

Multiplicity of Half-Truths

Fragments of Any Given Reality

New Biospheres

Chapter 19

A Posteriori Analytics

Anthropos Syndrome

Biological Zones of Transition

Chapter 20

Amor Fati and the Semipelagianist Logic

Peculiar Sets of Problems

Edmund Spenser's Tower

Sad Truths

Chapter 21

The Quantum Physics of Free Will

Ground States

Output Functions

Of a Sound Mind?

Origins of Despair

Existential Psychiatry

Chapter 22

Mathematical and Ethical Transition Zones

Micro-Manipulations

Ethical Presence

Chapter 23

New Nature Composites

Boolean Ecology

Allometric Conditionals

Higher Order Cybernetics

The Dyads of Behavior

Chapter 24

Differentiating the Translations

Cognition in Motion

Global Indices

Externalities and Causality

The Crisis of Sentience

Chapter 25

The Evolution and Future of Lunacy

The Fallacy of Costs/Benefits Analysis

The Crowds of Melancholy

Chapter 26

In the Presence of Their Tombs

Philosophy in Exile

Rationalizations

Self-Evident Truths

Chapter 27

Impossible Worlds?

Parable of the Ants

The Metaphysics of Gestation

Domestic and Wild

Chapter 28

Deconstructing Modernist Ecology

Private Consciousness

Reassessing Our Assumptions

The Nature of Self-Restraint

Ovidian Ecosystems

Chapter 29

The Final Days of the Systemic

The Ecology of Adam and Eve

Transpositions

The Crush of Variables

Consciousness and Death

First and Last Tenets

Ecological Modeling of Other Worlds

Chapter 30

The Innocence That Lagged Behind

A Totality of Human Harm.

The Scale of Population Predicates

Redemptive Connections

Ecological Democracies?

The Ambiguities of an Arc

Coda: Futural Logic

The Fate of an Organism

The Critical Feelings for Others

Synderesis

Index of Names

Index of Terms

About the Authors

Blank Page.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-911-3578-9