Life is a miracle : an essay against modern superstition

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Life is a miracle : an essay against modern superstition

Wendell Berry

Counterpoint, c2000

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Includes bibliographical references

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A thought-provoking and concise rebuttal to E.O. Wilson's Consilience. In his best-seller Consilience , E.O. Wilson presented a blueprint for the reconciliation of science with religion and the arts. In a carefully measured response, Wendell Berry demonstrates that Wilson's reconciliation is nothing more than the subjugation of religion and art by science, which alone, according to Wilson, would set the boundaries of discourse among the three disciplines. Berry argues that religion and art are not subject to the reductionist and materialistic assumptions of modern science, and cannot be contained within its boundaries or explained by its explanations. He says the aims of science have become hard to distinguish from those of industry and commerce, and he advocates a new Emancipation Proclamation to free life itself from enslavement by the corporations and their scientific underlings.The aim, according to Berry, is not consilience among the disciplines, but rather conversation. He concludes his argument by suggesting a number of changes in thought which would enable such a conversation to take place.

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Ignorance Propriey On Edward O. Wilsons Consilience Materialism Materialism and mysery Imperialism Reductionism Creatures as Machines Originality and the Two Cultures Progress Without Subtraction Reduction and Religion Reduction and Art A Conversation Out of School Toward a Change of Standards Some Notes in Conclusion

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