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The Splendid Feast of Reason (Paperback, New edition)
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The Splendid Feast of Reason (Paperback, New edition)
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Jonathan Singer's witty, erudite book is a celebration of
rationality and an urgent call to make use of intelligence and
reason to better cope with human problems. Emphasizing the
importance of rationality's greatest achievement, modern science,
Singer - one of the foremost biologists of our era - argues that
for the first time in several million years humanity has at its
disposal the tools for an objective understanding of the external
world. Singer demonstrates that, today more than ever, the fullest
exercise of rationality is essential if humanity is to rein in a
runaway technology and control an explosion of the human population
that together threaten to devastate life on this planet within only
a few more generations. The intrusion of reason and rationality
into our largely irrational world has been painfully slow, uneven,
and often unwelcome. Singer explains that for rationalists the
founding of modern science - which took place only a few hundred
years ago - has overthrown many of the myths of conventional wisdom
and dogmas of traditional religions. Yet these beliefs still hold
sway over the irrational world, obstructing efforts to deal
sensibly with the problematic future of mankind. The core of "The
Splendid Feast of Reason" is an engaging and accessible account of
the knowledge that modern science provides. Singer offers an
absorbing discussion of how life works, of the nature of
reproduction, aging, and death, and of the necessary fragility of
the individual life compared to the resilience of life itself. He
emphasizes the primary role of the genes in determining the
structural organization and the behaviors of living things,
including humans. He also stresses the nature and mechanisms of
biological evolution, mechanisms that have now been placed in
jeopardy because of human ignorance and irrational appetites.
Finally, Singer delves into the enigma of the real world with its
irrational and chaotic operations and offers suggestions of how a
rationalist can not only survive, but thrive in it.
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