- Bib ID:
- 6609551
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wilson, Edward O, author
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
- 207 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN:
-
- Summary:
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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.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Subject:
- Philosophical anthropology
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