Life, death, and other inconvenient truths: a realist's view of the human condition
"Short essays that touch many topics-anxiety, consciousness, death, happiness, morality, stupidity, & truth-that make the case for realism & help set expectations with regard to the human condition"--
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| adam_text | Contents Preface xiii Executive Summary: A Rhyming Lore of the Human Condition 1 Action xvii 1 The native hue ofresolution. The pale cast of thought. And lose the name of action. 2 5 Ambition Pelf and place. A small goat. 3 Anxiety 9 Possession. What you know you don t know can hurt you. What—me worry? Yes. 4 Beauty 13 The imminence of a revelation. Evolutionary bait and switch. Between the world and a grain of sand. The pathos of things. The seven sad senses of beauty. 5 Children (The Raising of) 19 Be good. Plan B. Other ways to be. 6 Complexity 23 The dark forest. A spotlight shines on an enigma. Back in the forest.
Contents viii 7 Consciousness 29 The Tempest in a teapot. The insubstantial pageant. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. The splendor and the misery. 8 35 Death The tragic sense of life. The Switch. Still The Switch. Only in silence the word. 9 Empathy 41 To em or not to em. Us and Them. From ordinary household objects. 10 Emptiness 45 Einstein meets the Buddha. Enter Borges. 11 Evolution 49 The mountains and the monsoon. A universal history of iniquity. Definitely maybe. 12 Existence 55 A bit of Talmudic existentialism. I think, therefore I ache. The mindfulness ruse. 13 Fear 59 Where the wild things are. True grit. We have seen the enemy. 14 FreeWill 63 Complications. Misapprehension. Chance. Necessity. Implications. 15 Happiness 69 Machineries ofjoy and sorrow. Happiness fast and slow. The dark side of happiness. 16 Home 73 No home. No homeland. No rest. No end.
ίχ Contents 79 17 Language The tentacles of intent. The Ring of Fire. Gaming the Game. Big Two-Hearted River. 18 Love 87 What a lovely way to bum. Che cosa e amor. Tuqbumi. 93 19 Mathematics Unreasonable effectiveness. Ineffectiveness of reason. But time and chance happeneth to them all. 99 20 Memory The waters ofNaihe. Some work of noble note. Across the universe. The Time Warp again. All memory and fate. 21 105 Morality Silentio Dei. On the genealogy of morals. Human, all too human. Away from Ornelas. 22 Old Age 113 Comfortably numb. Catabasis. Cassandra s golden years. Volver. 23 Parents (The Liberation from) 119 Be good. Be you. Be back. 24 Perception 123 Use your illusion. Umwelten. How things really are. 25 Politics 129 The tools of the trade. A shining city on the hill. Into the catacombs. News from Nowhere. 26 Power 137 The great chains of being. The invisible hand. Beyond Freedom and Dignity.
Contents x 27 Poverty 141 Cui bono? Double double jeopardy. UBI bene? 28 Regret 145 Nothing, really? The ledger. Fools and heroes. 29 Religion 149 A rose by any other name. Hanging onto the tiger s tail. The heart of a heartless world. Pride and prejudice. 30 Science 155 Truth to power. The two towers. Power-proofing science. 31 Stupidity 159 Human, all too human. An eclipse of common sense. The wages offolly. Worse than a fool. The stupidity of crowds. The unholy trinity. 32 Suffering 165 Mindsets. Varieties. Mechanisms. Options. 33 Technology 171 Comfortably numb. The fiery sword. Cura te ipsum. 34 Thinking 175 Transitional. Treacherous. Transgressional. 35 Time 181 The sandstorm. Faster, slower, true. The tyranny of now. The arrow of time. 36 Truth 185 A melancholy pearl. Ministries ofinformation. Into the well. 37 War 189 A room with a view. After Babel. Blowing in the wind.
Contents 38 Youth xi 195 Another difficult dilemma. Silver spoon or not. Choice and chance. Janus introversus. Afterword 201 Just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in) Acknowledgments Notes 205 References Index 311 271 203
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Contents Preface xiii Executive Summary: A Rhyming Lore of the Human Condition 1 Action xvii 1 The native hue ofresolution. The pale cast of thought. And lose the name of action. 2 5 Ambition Pelf and place. A small goat. 3 Anxiety 9 Possession. What you know you don't know can hurt you. What—me worry? Yes. 4 Beauty 13 The imminence of a revelation. Evolutionary bait and switch. Between the world and a grain of sand. The pathos of things. The seven sad senses of beauty. 5 Children (The Raising of) 19 Be good. Plan B. Other ways to be. 6 Complexity 23 The dark forest. A spotlight shines on an enigma. Back in the forest.
Contents viii 7 Consciousness 29 The Tempest in a teapot. The insubstantial pageant. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. The splendor and the misery. 8 35 Death The tragic sense of life. The Switch. Still The Switch. Only in silence the word. 9 Empathy 41 To em or not to em. Us and Them. From ordinary household objects. 10 Emptiness 45 Einstein meets the Buddha. Enter Borges. 11 Evolution 49 The mountains and the monsoon. A universal history of iniquity. Definitely maybe. 12 Existence 55 A bit of Talmudic existentialism. I think, therefore I ache. The mindfulness ruse. 13 Fear 59 Where the wild things are. True grit. We have seen the enemy. 14 FreeWill 63 Complications. Misapprehension. Chance. Necessity. Implications. 15 Happiness 69 Machineries ofjoy and sorrow. Happiness fast and slow. The dark side of happiness. 16 Home 73 No home. No homeland. No rest. No end.
ίχ Contents 79 17 Language The tentacles of intent. The Ring of Fire. Gaming the Game. Big Two-Hearted River. 18 Love 87 What a lovely way to bum. Che cosa e amor. Tuqbumi. 93 19 Mathematics Unreasonable effectiveness. Ineffectiveness of reason. But time and chance happeneth to them all. 99 20 Memory The waters ofNaihe. Some work of noble note. Across the universe. The Time Warp again. All memory and fate. 21 105 Morality Silentio Dei. On the genealogy of morals. Human, all too human. Away from Ornelas. 22 Old Age 113 Comfortably numb. Catabasis. Cassandra's golden years. Volver. 23 Parents (The Liberation from) 119 Be good. Be you. Be back. 24 Perception 123 Use your illusion. Umwelten. How things really are. 25 Politics 129 The tools of the trade. A shining city on the hill. Into the catacombs. News from Nowhere. 26 Power 137 The great chains of being. The invisible hand. Beyond Freedom and Dignity.
Contents x 27 Poverty 141 Cui bono? Double double jeopardy. UBI bene? 28 Regret 145 Nothing, really? The ledger. Fools and heroes. 29 Religion 149 A rose by any other name. Hanging onto the tiger's tail. The heart of a heartless world. Pride and prejudice. 30 Science 155 Truth to power. The two towers. Power-proofing science. 31 Stupidity 159 Human, all too human. An eclipse of common sense. The wages offolly. Worse than a fool. The stupidity of crowds. The unholy trinity. 32 Suffering 165 Mindsets. Varieties. Mechanisms. Options. 33 Technology 171 Comfortably numb. The fiery sword. Cura te ipsum. 34 Thinking 175 Transitional. Treacherous. Transgressional. 35 Time 181 The sandstorm. Faster, slower, true. The tyranny of now. The arrow of time. 36 Truth 185 A melancholy pearl. Ministries ofinformation. Into the well. 37 War 189 A room with a view. After Babel. Blowing in the wind.
Contents 38 Youth xi 195 Another difficult dilemma. Silver spoon or not. Choice and chance. Janus introversus. Afterword 201 Just dropped in (to see what condition my condition was in) Acknowledgments Notes 205 References Index 311 271 203 |
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