Misleading Quests for Purpose in Life
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Misleading Quests for Purpose in Life
Teleological Why-Questions, Science, and Societal and Animal Abuses
Springer International Publishing AG
09/2021
190
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Inglês
9783319704005
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Preface 1. A brief history of the quest for purpose in life, from the Greeks to modern times, including Darwin2. 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 war5. How teleological narratives and the notion of 'chain of being' are related to colonialism6. How teleological plots and the notion of 'chain of being' are associated to animal abuse7. It is much more than religion: idealism as a case study of a widespread teleological narrative8. Don't ask why, ask how - towards an unbiased, more rational non-teleological science and a fulfilling life without purpose References Index
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Preface 1. A brief history of the quest for purpose in life, from the Greeks to modern times, including Darwin2. 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 war5. How teleological narratives and the notion of 'chain of being' are related to colonialism6. How teleological plots and the notion of 'chain of being' are associated to animal abuse7. It is much more than religion: idealism as a case study of a widespread teleological narrative8. Don't ask why, ask how - towards an unbiased, more rational non-teleological science and a fulfilling life without purpose References Index
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