These essays from one of our most stimulating thinkers showcase
Tallis's infectious fascination, indeed intoxication, with the
infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition. In the
title essay, we join Tallis on a stroll around his local park - and
the intricate passages of his own consciousness - as he uses the
motif of the walk, the amble, to occasion a series of meditations
on the freedoms that only human beings possess. In subsequent
essays, the flaneur thinks about his brain, his relationship to the
rest of the animal kingdom, his profession of medicine and about
the physical world and the claims of physical science to have
rendered philosophical reflection obsolete. Taken together the
essays continue Tallis's mission to elaborate a vision of humanity
that rejects religious myths while not succumbing to scientism or
any other form of naturalism. Written with the author's customary
intellectual energy and vigour these essays provoke, move and
challenge us to think differently about who we are and our place in
the material world.
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