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The Two Greatest Ideas - How Our Grasp of the Universe and Our Minds Changed Everything (Paperback)
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The Two Greatest Ideas - How Our Grasp of the Universe and Our Minds Changed Everything (Paperback)
Series: Soochow University Lectures in Philosophy
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Loot Price R481
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Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually
every aspect of civilization This book is a breathtaking
examination of the two greatest ideas in human history. The first
is the idea that the human mind can grasp the universe. The second
is the idea that the human mind can grasp itself. Acclaimed
philosopher Linda Zagzebski shows how the first unleashed a
cultural awakening that swept across the world in the first
millennium BCE, giving birth to philosophy, mathematics, science,
and virtually all the major world religions. It dominated until the
Renaissance, when the discovery of subjectivity profoundly
transformed the arts and sciences. This second great idea governed
our perception of reality up until the dawn of the twenty-first
century. Zagzebski explores how the interplay of the two ideas led
to conflicts that have left us ambivalent about the relationship
between the mind and the universe, and have given rise to a host of
moral and political rifts over the deepest questions human beings
face. Should we organize civil society around the ideal of living
in harmony with the world or that of individual autonomy? Zagzebski
explains how the two greatest ideas continue to divide us today
over issues such as abortion, the environment, free speech, and
racial and gender identity. This panoramic book reveals what is
missing in our conception of ourselves and the world, and imagines
a not-too-distant future when a third great idea, the idea that
human minds can grasp each other, will help us gain an idea of the
whole of reality.
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