Science and Faith: Or Man As an Animal and Man As a Member of Society, With a Discussion of Animal Societies - Couverture rigide
Synopsis
Science and Faith: Or Man as an Animal and Man as a Member of Society, with a Discussion of Animal Societies is a book written by French anthropologist Paul Topinard and originally published in 1899. The book explores the relationship between science and religion, as well as the nature of humanity and society.Topinard argues that humans are both animals and members of society, and that these two aspects of our nature are interconnected. He discusses the similarities and differences between human and animal societies, and explores the ways in which humans have evolved to become social beings.Throughout the book, Topinard considers the role of faith in human society, and how it has influenced our understanding of the world and our place in it. He also examines the ways in which science has challenged traditional religious beliefs, and how this has affected our understanding of the natural world.Overall, Science and Faith provides a thought-provoking exploration of the complex relationship between science, religion, and society, and offers insights into the nature of humanity itself.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Vt N...K sE TRANSLATORS PREFACE. In 1895, the editors ofT he iJ icwj extended to a number of prominent European and American thinkers an invitation to discuss, from the points of view of their several specialties, the main problems of the philosophy of science and of the reconciliation of science and faith. The most extensive outcome of this invitation was the present work, by Dr. Paul Topinard, the eminent French anthropologist. Dr. Topinard sbook is essentially a contribution to sociology; but it possesses the additional merit that it has been made by an original inquirer of high rank in a department of science which constitutes the groundwork of sociology, and that consequently its conclusions have sprung from a direct and creative contact with the facts, and not from derivative and secondary theories about those facts. Wha.tever objections, therefore, some of its special tenets may evoke, its importance as a firsthand investigation, and the weight consequently due to its utterances, cannot be underrated. But, while written by a specialist, the discussion is not exclusively anthropological and ethnological. The physical, historical, cultural, and psychological factors of social evolution receive the same emphasis of consideration as the biological and sociological proper. We shall briefly indicateD r. Topinard scentral view. To begin with, anthropology, supposing it not to concern itself with societies, discovers in man an animal only; man is in his primitive stage perforce subjective, and by a rigorous natural logic egocentric; the law of self-preservation, as determining his conduct, both towards nature and his fellowanimals, is paramount with him. Sociologically considered, therefore, mans animality, mans primitive and inherited egocentrism, is the primal source of all the difficulties that arise in society, the arch-enemy to be combated.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
In 1S95, ceditors ofT he A fon ftxtended to a number of prominent European and American thinkers an invitation to discuss, from the points of view of their several specialties the main problems of the philosophy of science and of the reconciliation of science and faith. The most extensive outcome of this invitation was the present work, by Dr. Paul Topinard, the eminent French anthropologist Dr. Topinard sbook is essentially a contribution to sociology; but it possesses the additional merit that it has been made by an original inquirer of high rank in a department of science which constitutes the groundwork of sociology, and that consequently its conclusions have sprung from a direct and creative contact with the facts, and not from derivative and secondary theories about those facts. Whatever objections, therefore, some of its special tenets may evoke, its importance as a firsthand investigation, and the weight consequently due to its utterances, cannot be underrated. But, while written by a specialist, the discussion is not exclusively anthropological and ethnological. The physical, historical, cultural, and psychological factors of social evolution receive the same emphasis of consideration as the biological and sociological proper. We shall briefly indicateD r. Topinard scentral view. To begin with, anthropology, supposing it not to concern itself with societies discovers in man an animal only; man is in his primitive stage perforce subjective, and by a rigorous natural logic egocentric; the law of self-preservation, as determining his conduct, both towards nature and his fellowanimals, is paramount with him. Sociologically considered, therefore, mans animality, mans primitive and inherited egocentrism, is the primal source of all the difficulties that arise in society, the arch-enemy to be combated.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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