Personal Reality: The Emergentist Concept of Science, Evolution, and Culture (1) - Couverture souple

Paksi, Daniel Paksi

 
9780227177167: Personal Reality: The Emergentist Concept of Science, Evolution, and Culture (1)
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ISBN 10 : 0227177169 ISBN 13 : 9780227177167
Editeur : James Clarke & Co Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Western civilization was built on the concept of God. Today modern science, based on the critical method and so-called objective facts, denies even the existence of our soul. There is only matter: atoms, molecules, and DNA sequences. There is no freedom; there are no well-grounded beliefs. The decline of Western civilization is not the simple consequence of decadence, hedonism, and malevolence. Modern critical science has liberated us from the old dogmas but failed to establish our freedoms, values, and beliefs. However, human knowledge is not objective but personal. We are the children of evolution. Everybody sees the world from his own personal point of view anchored into his/her body. We use our billions-of-years-old evolutionary skills and thousands-of-years-old cultural heritage to recognize and acknowledge the personal facts of our reality, freedom, and most important natural beliefs: respect and speak the truth. In reality, even science itself is based on our personal knowledge. Only our false conceptual dichotomies paralyze our thinking. God or matter? There is a third choice: the emergence of life and human persons. This is the only way to defend our freedoms and the Christian moral dynamism of free Western societies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Paksi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics where he received his PhD in history and philosophy of science in 2010. His primary goal with Personal Reality to establish a coherent concept of emergence based on Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge and Samuel Alexander's Space, Time, and Deity.

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Éditeur
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0227177169
ISBN 13 
9780227177167
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
287
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1532654391 ISBN 13 :  9781532654398
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2019
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