03147nam 22007574a 450 991034822720332120241107100442.097866100470799781134392520113439252497811343925371134392532978128004707712800470709780203480922020348092910.4324/9780203480922 (CKB)1000000000255009(EBL)235286(OCoLC)475943116(SSID)ssj0000207718(PQKBManifestationID)11196578(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000207718(PQKBWorkID)10237972(PQKB)10798342(Au-PeEL)EBL235286(CaPaEBR)ebr10099769(CaONFJC)MIL4707(OCoLC)252883036(MiAaPQ)EBC235286(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29878(ODN)ODN0004069134(ScCtBLL)d2164c68-e00c-49b5-9908-cf2cf1769925(oapen)doab29878(EXLCZ)99100000000025500920021209d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe myths we live by /Mary MidgleyLondon ;New York Routledge20031 online resource (203 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-30906-9 0-415-34077-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index.How myths work -- Our place in the world -- Progress, science and modernity -- Thought has many forms -- The aims of reduction -- Dualistic dilemmas -- Motives, materialism and megalomania -- What is action -- Tidying the inner scene : why memes? -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Getting rid of the ego -- Cultural evolution? -- Selecting the selectors -- Is reason sex-linked? -- The journey from freedom to desolation -- Biotechnology and the yuk factor -- The new alchemy -- The supernatural engineer -- Heaven and earth, an awkward history -- Science looks both ways -- Are you an animal? -- Problems about parsimony -- Denying animal consciousness -- Beasts versus the biosphere? -- Some practical dilemmas -- Problems of living with otherness -- Changing ideas of wildnessMary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose, she claims that myths are neither lies nor mere stories but a network of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world.MythSymbolismPhilosophyMyth.Symbolism.Philosophy.19108.32bclMidgley Mary1919-554950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910348227203321The myths we live by2052182UNINA