Rui Diogo
Misleading Quests for Purpose in Life
Teleological Why-Questions, Science, and Societal and Animal Abuses
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Our tendency to wonder why life is as it is and what its purpose is-often considered to be among the most noble features of human evolution and humanity-is in reality profoundly linked with some of the darker moments in our history, including animal abuse, colonialism, and the rise of racism and the eugenetics that culminated in the Second World War. In order to try to avoid the continuation of such dark events and pave the way for a more rational, accurate, and less-biased understanding about life and our day-to-day, we must reframe our questioning. Once we grasp that there is no ultimate purpose or master plan for the existence of inanimate…
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Our tendency to wonder why life is as it is and what its purpose is-often considered to be among the most noble features of human evolution and humanity-is in reality profoundly linked with some of the darker moments in our history, including animal abuse, colonialism, and the rise of racism and the eugenetics that culminated in the Second World War. In order to try to avoid the continuation of such dark events and pave the way for a more rational, accurate, and less-biased understanding about life and our day-to-day, we must reframe our questioning. Once we grasp that there is no ultimate purpose or master plan for the existence of inanimate objects or biological organisms and the way they live, why questions lose importance. Instead, investigations into natural events such as the occurrence of earthquakes and wonders such as the flying of birds should be framed with how questions: how did the earthquake occur and how did the current behavior of organisms evolve?Integrating information from diverse scientific fields, this book argues against the widely accepted idea that wonder in the purpose of life constitutes one of the noblest human qualities. As such, its arguments are intended for biologists, historians and philosophers of science alike. Students, teachers, and researchers of any scientific field, as well as all those who are fascinated by questions about their daily inner-lives and their cosmic purpose will be intrigued by unique discussions into themes like racism, colonialism, and eugenics.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-319-70400-5
- EAN: 9783319704005
- Produktnummer: 31958774
- Verlag: Springer Nature EN
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 190 S.
- Masse: 1 Ex.; H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm 0 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2021
- Abbildungen: Book; schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
- Sonstiges: Popular/general
Über den Autor
Rui Diogo is a Fellow of the American Association of Anatomists, and an Associate Professor at the Howard University College of Medicine and a Resource Faculty at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of George Washington University (US). He is the author or co-author of numerous publications, and the co-editor of the books Catfishes and Gonorynchiformes and ostariophysan interrelationships. He is the sole author or first author of the books Morphological evolution, aptations, homoplasies, constraints and evolutionary trends; The origin of higher clades; Muscles of vertebrates; Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of Gorilla; Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of gibbons and siamangs (Hylobates);Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of orangutans; Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of a baby gorilla; Photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of chimpanzees; Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of primate muscles and human evolution; Learning and understanding human anatomy and pathology: an evolutionary and developmental guide for medical students; and the new book being now published by Springer, Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior.
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