书名: Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning
作者: Mary Midgley (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (May 2, 1994)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415107733
ISBN-13: 978-0415107730
Book Description
Science as Salvation discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science. Officially, science claims only the modest function of establishing facts. Yet people still hope for something much grander from it--namely, the myths by which to shape and support life in an increasingly confusing age. Science as Salvation examines the need for and the use of myth in science and explores the relationship between science and religion. She argues that we need to develop a realistic understanding of scientific imagination and its importance. Taking them seriously as symptoms of a genuine hunger for myth, this book suggests that the proper function of science may need to include wider perspectives, which would make it plain that such desperate, compensatory dramas are unnecessary.
Review
"This book is a welcome, funny, robust and acute assault on some of the drivel that has lately been filling bookshops under the heading `Popular Science'." -- The Times
About the Author
Mary Midgley is Former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, the University of Newcastle. She is the author of many books, among them Evolution as a Religion, Wisdom, Information and Wonder, and Wickedness, all published by Routledge.
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作者: Mary Midgley (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (May 2, 1994)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415107733
ISBN-13: 978-0415107730
Book Description
Science as Salvation discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science. Officially, science claims only the modest function of establishing facts. Yet people still hope for something much grander from it--namely, the myths by which to shape and support life in an increasingly confusing age. Science as Salvation examines the need for and the use of myth in science and explores the relationship between science and religion. She argues that we need to develop a realistic understanding of scientific imagination and its importance. Taking them seriously as symptoms of a genuine hunger for myth, this book suggests that the proper function of science may need to include wider perspectives, which would make it plain that such desperate, compensatory dramas are unnecessary.
Review
"This book is a welcome, funny, robust and acute assault on some of the drivel that has lately been filling bookshops under the heading `Popular Science'." -- The Times
About the Author
Mary Midgley is Former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, the University of Newcastle. She is the author of many books, among them Evolution as a Religion, Wisdom, Information and Wonder, and Wickedness, all published by Routledge.
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