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Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can in the end answer any question we choose to put to it -- even the most fundamental questions about ourselves, our behavior and our cultures. Many go as far as to claim that science is all we need to explain the world. But for Mary Midgley, science, while undeniably a key element in this quest, can never be the whole story as it cannot truly explain what it means to be human. In this typically crusading work, universally acclaimed as a classic on first publication, she powerfully asserts her corrective view that without poetry (or literature, or music, or history, even theology) we cannot hope to understand our humanity. Reading this remarkable book, which draws equally on both the great artists and poets for its inspiration, the reader is struck by both the simplicity and power of her argument and the sheer pleasure to be gained from reading one of our most accessible philosophers.

PREFACE TO THE ROUTLEDGE CLASSICS EDITION

ACKNOWLEDG EM ENTS

Introduction

PART Ⅰ Visions of Rationality

1 The sources of thought

2 Knowledge considered as weed-killer

3 Rationality and rainbows

4 The shape of disillusion

5 Atomistic visions: The quest for permanence

6 Memes and other unusual life-forms

PART Ⅱ Mind and Body: The End of Apartheid

7 Putting our selves together again

8 Living in the world

9 The strange persistence of fatalism

10 Chessboards and presidents of'the immortals

11 Doing science on purpose

12 One world, but a big one

13 A plague on both their houses

14 Being scientific about our selves

PART Ⅲ In What Kind of World?

15 Widening responsibilities

16 The problem of humbug

17 Individualism and the concept of Gala

18 Gods and goddesses: The role of'wonder

19 Why there is such a thing as society

20 Paradoxes ofsociobiology and social Darwinism

21 Mythology, rhetoric and religion

NOTES

INDEX

Mary Midgley is a popular moral philosopher and has been described by The Guardian as "the foremost scourge of scientific pretension in this country." She has recently completed her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva (Routledge, 2005).

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"Midgley writes perceptively -- and beautifully -- about many things. But, in the end, it is the poetry, including the poetry of Midgley's prose, that makes the book worth reading."

--Philip Clayton, Nature Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can in the end answer any question we choose to put to it -- even the most fundamental questions about ourselves, our behavior and our cultures. Many go as far as to claim that science is all we need to explain the world. But for Mary Midgley, science, while undeniably a key element in this quest, can never be the whole story as it cannot truly explain what it means to be human. In this typically crusading work, universally acclaimed as a classic on first publication, she powerfully asserts her corrective view that without poetry (or literature, or music, or history, even theology) we cannot hope to understand our humanity. Reading this remarkable book, which draws equally on both the great artists and poets for its inspiration, the reader is struck by both the simplicity and power of her argument and the sheer pleasure to be gained from reading one of our most accessible philosophers.