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Where are We, What are We, Why are We? - And Why Do We Want to Know? (Paperback)
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Where are We, What are We, Why are We? - And Why Do We Want to Know? (Paperback)
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Loot Price R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
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An exploration of the possible reasons why people feel the urge to
give meaning to life. The book approaches its task by looking at
the nature of the universe and our perception of our place in it,
and it speculates on how this perception may give rise to spiritual
and religious sensibilities. The book is divided into three parts.
Part 1 (Where Are We?) deals with aspects of the nature of the
universe and the way that we perceive it through the distorting
lens of our own senses and preoccupations. Part 2 (What Are We?)
covers the subject of the nature of life, from its beginnings to
the emergence of homo sapiens, and how the development of life has
conditioned us to react to our environment in specific ways. Part 3
(Why Are We?) explores our attitudes to mental states such as
consciousness and mind, and explores the implications of these
attitudes. The author's attitude to the nature of the universe can
be summed up in the quote on the book's cover. "We only tend to
think that reality is weird when we contemplate its extremes, such
as the core of the atom or the edge of the universe - but the place
is actually weird all the way through."
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