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Identity of Man (Paperback)
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Science has called into question many traditional assumptions about
human nature. In the age of the human genome project, this truism
is even more obvious than it was in 1965, when scientist and
historian of ideas Jacob Bronowski first delivered the lectures
upon which this book is based. Has science revealed that we are
essentially just complex machines? Or is human identity more than
the sum of its parts?
With his gift for conveying the excitement of ideas, Bronowski
discusses the impact of science on our sense of self and the need
to re-evaluate ethics in light of the scientific perspective. As
both a practicing scientist and an author of books on poetry, he
makes interesting connections between the uses of the imagination
in science and in literature. Whereas science creates experiments
to test hypotheses about the outside world, literature provides
"experiments" in poetry and prose, allowing readers to experience
what it means to be fully human and relating the individualAEs
inner life to that of every human being. In the quest for
understanding, science discovers the facts about reality while art
depicts the truth of human experience. Bronowski argues that a true
humanistic philosophy must give equal place to the inner,
subjective vision of the arts and the outer, objective perspective
of science since they are both products of one self-conscious
creative imagination. In the final analysis, he emphasizes that
these perspectives converge in revealing a more enlightened,
universal ethics, one that fosters tolerance, mutual understanding,
an appreciation of differences, and a sense that we all share a
common destiny as human participants in natureAEs cosmic drama.
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