First life: an existential revolt against Euclidean man
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. THE MAN IN THE TOWER 1.2. EUCLIDEAN MAN 1.3. MACHINE-MAN AND
NIHILISM 1.4. FIRST-IIFE AND EXISTENTIAL TRUTH 1.5. EXISTENTIAL
CONTRADICTIONS
1.6. THE PLAN OFTHE BOOK 1.7. SUGGESTIONS FOR READING THE BOOK
PART I: ABRIEF HISTORY OF EUCLIDEANISM
CHAPTER 2. A NAMELESS AND SHINING THING (DETERMINISM AND MORALS IN
ANCIENT THOUGHT)
2.1. MAN AS MACHINE - HOMER 2.2. EXISTENTIAL MAN - AESCHYLUS 2.3.
NATURAL MAN - GREEK SCIENCE 2.4. FROM MATERIALISM TO NIHILISM - THE
SOPHISTS 2.5. RATIONAL MAN - SOCRATES 2.6. RATIONAL MAN - THE PLATONIC
RETREAT FROM FIRST-IIFE
CHAPTER 3. GOD'S THUNDERBOLT (DETERMINISM - ASTROLOGICAL, THEISTIC AND
METAPHYSICAL)
1 4 5
11 15 18 20
23 24 27 32
34 36
3.1. TYRANTS IN THE SKY - ASTROLOGICAL DETERMINISM 39
3.2. GOD'S THUNDERBOLT - THEISTIC DETERMINISM 43
3.3. MAN AS ASPIRITUAL AUTOMATON - METAPHYSICAL DETERMINISM 45
CHAPTER 4. THE MODERN REVOLUTION IN THOUGHT (HOW EUCLIDEANS CAME TO
THINK ABOUT MAN IN THE WAY THEY DO)
4.1. NATURAL AND RATIONAL MAN IN MODERN EUCLIDEAN THOUGHT 48
4.2. REAL DETERMINISM AT LAST - THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 49
4.3. THE RISE OF MODERN MATERIALISM - HOBBES 51
4.4. THE MISGUIDED QUEST FOR CERTAINTY - DESCARTES'S PHILOSOPHICAL 54
REVOLUTION
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4.5. PHILOSOPHIEAL EMPIRICISM - LOCKE 56
4.6. THE STRANGE JOURNEY INTO AN 'EVIDENCE-ONLY' WORLD - HUME'S 57
SCEPTICISM 4.7. ABOLISHING THE MATERIAL WORLD AND OTHER MINDS 58
4.8. ABOLISHING ONE'S OWN MIND 59
4.9. ABOLISHING NECESSITY, SCIENTIFIC PREDICTION AND FREE WILL 61 4.10.
THE REIGNING CLIEHE - THE FACT-VALUE ERROR 63
4.11. THOUGHT ESTRANGED FROM FIRST-LIFE 68
CHAPTER 5. NEWTONS OF EVERYTHING (EUCLIDEANISM IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT)
5.1. THE PROBLEM OF CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS 5.2. CLOCKWORK PEOPLE AND
ASSOCIATIONISM 5.3. MACHINE-MAN - DIDEROT 5.4. MACHINE-MAN - LA METTRIE
5.5. THE DEATHLIKE COSMOS - D'HOLBACH
CHAPTER 6. BY ETERNAL LAWS OF IRON RULED (EUCLIDEANISM IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY)
6.1. THE FAILED ARITHMETIE OF HUMAN HAPPINESS - BENTHAM 6.2. MAN AS A
BLOT ON THE FACE OF SCIENCE - J.S. MILL 6.3. 'THE STARS', SHE WHISPERS,
'BLINDLY RON' - TENNYSON 6.4. MEN AS CONSCIOUS AUTOMATA - T.H. HUXLEY
6.5. THE FAILED SCIENCE OF GREEK TRAGEDY - FREUD 6.6. DETERMINISM
SNATCHED AWAY - QUANTUM PHYSICS
CHAPTER 7. NOTHING BUT USEFUL FICTIONS (EUCLIDEANISM IN THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY)
70 73 74 76
78
81 84 87 88 90
95
7.1. DETERMINISM PATCHED UP 99
7.2. FROM BILLIARD BALLS TO SHAKESPEARE - BERTRAND RUSSELL 100
7.3. MAN BUILT FROM THE LAWS OFPHYSICS - RICHARD DAWKINS 103
7.4. THE MIND MACHINE - COLIN BLAKEMORE 107
7.5. THE ETHICS GAME - STEVEN PINKER 110
7.6. OTHER EUCLIDEANS - HOFSTADTER, CRIEK AND DENNETT 113
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PART 11: THE FANTASY OF THE MACHINE-MAN
CHAPTER 8. SAVING THE WORLD FROM SOLIPSISM (HOW NOT EVERYONE VALUES
PHILOSOPHY'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT)
8.1. INTRODUCTION TO PART 11 8.2. THE EUCLIDEAN FLINCH IN THE FACE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS 8.3. A COMIC ADVENTURE - THE PROBLEM OF SOLIPSISM 8.4.
RADICAL BEHAVIOURISM - B.F. SKINNER
8.5. THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE - GILBERT RYLE 8.6. WALKING ON WORDS -
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN 8.7. SAVING SOLIPSISM FOR THE WORLD
CHAPTER 9. THE MATERIALIST FEAR OF CONSCIOUSNESS (HOW THE MIND IS NOT
THE BRAIN)
119 120 123 125
127 131 136
9.1. THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM 140
9.2. THE HIGHER MADNESS - THE IDENTIFICATION OFMIND WITH BRAIN 143 9.3.
MADNESS SQUARED - ELIMINATIVE MATERIALISM 149
9.4. THE FEAR OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE INTEL1ECTUAL SANDBOX 153
CHAPTER 10. THE PHYSICS THAT NEVER WAS (THE IMAGINARY PHYSICS UNDERLYING
MACHINE-MAN)
10.1. THE PHYSICS THAT NEVER WAS 10.2. THE PARADOX OF EPIPHENOMENALISM
10.3. EVOLUTION AND USEFUL FICTIONS 10.4. IN PRAISE OF THE GHOST AND ITS
ENERGY
10.5. TRYING TO BUILD MAN FROM THE LAWS OF PHYSICS 10.6. EXTRAORDINARY
SPECULATIONS 10.7. THE MACHINE IN THE GHOST - EUCLIDEAN HOPES
CHAPTER 11. THE PHYSICS THAT NEVER COULD BE (WHY THE IMAGINARY PHYSICS
IS IMAGINARY)
11.1. SYSTEMATIC DETERMINISM - IF NOT THIS, THEN WHAT? 11.2. MACHINE-MAN
- SECOND ORDER DIFFICULTIES 11.3. MACHINE-MAN - THE DECISIVE DIFFICULTY
11.4. PIECEMEAL DETERMINISM - THE LIBET EXPERIMENT 11.5. THE INCOHERENCE
OFTHE MACHINE-MAN IDEA
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156 161 162 166
170 172
174 175 179 183
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CHAPTER 12. THE REALITY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY (HOW THINGS ARE MUCH
AS THEY SEEM TO BE)
12.1.
12.2.
12.3.
12.4.
12.5.
12.6. 12.7.
12.8.
12.9.
INTRODUCTION SYSTEMATIC DETERMINISM AND FREE WILL PIECEMEAL DETERMINISM
AND FREE WILL INDETERMINISM AND FREE WILL
FROM FREE WILL TO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY THE REALM OF INNER TRUTH
BACKING INNER TRUTH AGAINST EMPIRICISM A METAPHOR - THE EUCLIDEAN CAVE
REDUCTIONISM AND THE EUCLIDEAN IMAGINATION
PART III : THE REALITY OF MORAL TRUTH
188 189 191 193 195 196 198 200 203
CHAPTER 13. PRETENDING TO INVENT RIGHT AND WRONG
(SUBTERFUGES REQUIRED BY THE FACT-VALUE MYTH)
13.1.
13.2.
13.3. 13.4. 13.5.
13.6. 13.7.
13.8.
THE EUCLIDEAN DENIAL OF MORAL TRUTH THE LOGICAL IRRELEVANCE OF ATHEISM
THE POWERLESSNESS OF DEFINITION RELATIVISM - THE IRRELEVANCE OF SOCIAL
DIFFERENCES RELATIVISM - ITS ALLEGED SUPPORT FOR TOLERANCE SUBJECTIVISM
- TRUTH FOR ME, TRUTH FOR YOU THE IMPOSSIBILITY OFBELIEFWITHOUT TRUTH
EMOTIVISM - MORALS AS EMOTIONS
209 211 211 215 219
221 224 224
CHAPTER 14. POTTE RING ABOUT BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
(THE EUCLIDEAN AESTHETIC FLIRTATION WITH NIHILISM)
14.1.
14.2.
14.3.
14.4.
14.5.
14.6. 14.7. 14.8.
THE EUCLIDEAN PROBLEM OVER GOOD AND EVIL THUS SPAKE DAWKINS - EUCLIDEALL
EMOTIONALISM DIONYSUS RESURRECTED - THE EUCLIDEALL IN THE FACE OF DEATH
DIONYSUS THE MACHINE - CREATIOLLISM OF ANOTHER KIND
FLOATING ON AWE - AN ARROW POINTING ILOWHERE REPLACING ETHICS WITH
AESTHETICS THE TOY NIHILIST'S DILEMMA - A CASE STUDY IN 'GRANDIOSITY'
THE EUCLIDEAN FIASCO
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231 232 234 235 237
239 242 245
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CHAPTER 15. STRIDING BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (NIHILISM - TAKING THE
EUCLIDEANS AT THEIR OWN WORD)
15.1. THE STRANGE QUEST FOR HONESTY WITHOUT TRUTH 15.2. SADE AND
MACHINE-MAN 15.3. NIHILISTS AND SUPERMEN - NIETZSEHE 15.4. THE VACUOUS
AUTHENTICITY OF GIDE AND SARTRE
15.5. CAMUS AND THE EUCLIDEAN AS OUTSIDER
CHAPTER 16. RECOGNISING RIGHT AND WRONG (HOW WE KNOW THAT MORAL TRUTH
EXISTS)
16.1. FOUNDATIONAL MORAL TRUTHS - MORAL FACTS 16.2. THE TENSION BETWEEN
MORAL TRUTH AND VALUES 16.3. HOW WE KNOW FOUNDATIONAL MORAL TRUTHS 16.4.
THE EMPIRICIST FAILURE WITH NON-NATURAL QUA1ITIES
16.5. THE CENTRALITY OF MORAL OBLIGATIONS 16.6. MORAL TRUTH, PHILOSOPHY
AND THE IMAGINATION 16.7. THE QUESTION OF MORAL JUDGEMENT 16.8. MORAL
TRUTH AND TOLERANCE
CHAPTER 17. MORAL TRUTH AND THE MAGIE OFTHE WORLD (TRACING MORAL TRUTH
BACK TO ITS SOURCE)
17.1. MORAL TRUTH AND THE MAGIE OFTHE WORLD 17.2. MORAL TRUTH WITHIN
ATHEISM 17.3. KANT AND MORAL TRUTH 17.4. PAUL ROUBICZEK - THINKING FROM
MORALS TOWARDS GOD
CHAPTER 18. EPILOGUE - SUPERNATURAL MAN (MAN AS A SUPERNATURAL BEING)
18.1. HUMAN DESTINY - A NON-EUCLIDEAN PICTURE OF MAN 18.2. MORAL TRUTH
AND THE QUEST FOR IIFE'S MEANING
REFERENCES
INDEX
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249 252 260 265
268 271 273 275
277 278 284 286
288 289 289
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