Evolution's Purpose : An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins

• Autore: McIntosh Steve
• Pubblicazione: Cork, : BookBaby, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (486 p.)
• Disciplina: 116
• Soggetto topico: Evolution - Origin; Cosmogony; Cosmology; Evolution (Biology); Human evolution; Evolutionary psychology; Human beings; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Role of Philosophy; Where I Stand; The Evolution of Worldviews; Overview of the Chapters; 1 The New Picture of Evolution; Defining Evolution; Emergence and Transcendence; What Causes Emergence?; The Evolution of Consciousness; Developmental Psychology; 2 Necessary Metaphysics for an Evolutionary Worldview; The Evolution of Metaphysics; How Metaphysics Is Used in the Science of Evolution; Toward a More Adequate Form of Evolutionary Metaphysics; The Influence of Information on Evolution ; The Self-Organization ParadigmAdaptive Mutation; Morphic Resonance; Intelligent Design; The Influence of Value on Evolution; Values and Agency; Values and Free Will; The Evolution of Values; 3 Eros-Value Gravity; The Reality of Values; Moral Realism; Values as Evolutionary Attractors; Values as Relational Structures; The Gravity of Disvalues; The Sovereignty of the Good; Evolution's Dialectical Pattern; 4 Primary Values-Beauty, Truth, and Goodness; The Philosophical Pedigree of the Primary Values; The Dialectical Relationship of the Beautiful, the True, and the Good ; The Teleology of Beauty, Truth, and GoodnessBeauty, Truth, and Goodness-Perfectly Minimal Evolutionary Metaphysics; 5 Evolutionary Progress in Human History; The Idea of Progress; The Dialectic of Progress and Pathology; Elements of Progress; Value Relativism; Sources of Moral Authority; A New Definition of Social and Cultural Progress; Justifying Claims for Cultural Evolution; 6 Evolutionary Progress in Nature; Progress in Biological Evolution Overall; Measuring Directionality in Biological Evolution; Progress and Prejudice; The Value of Wholes and Parts; Biocentric Egalitarianism ; Anthropocentrism and the Value of the NoosphereProgress in Cosmological Evolution; Progress and Teleology; 7 Purpose in Evolution; The Experience of Purpose; Evidence for Purpose in Evolution; Purpose in the Pattern-Evolution's Generation of Value; The Rising Flow of Creativity; Parallels Between Personal and Universal Development; Consideration of the Purpose of the Whole; Instrumental Purpose; Intrinsic Purpose; Purpose and Dialectical Synthesis; The Purpose of Suffering; 8 Spiritual Reflections on Evolution's Purpose; A Dialectical Thesis of Experiential Perfection through Evolution ; Ten Tenets of Evolutionary TheologyDiscussion of the Ten Tenets; Last Thoughts on the First Cause; 9 The Promise of a New Evolutionary Worldview; The Evolutionary Authenticity of the Postmodern Worldview; Next Steps for Cultural Evolution; Elements of an Evolutionary Worldview; A New Ontology; A New Epistemology; A New Set of Values; A Second Enlightenment; Value Dynamics within Cultural Evolution; Values as a Leading Line of Development; The Internal Cultural Ecosystem; The "Holarchic Principle" of Cultural Evolution; Evolutionary Politics; Near-Term Goals; Long-Term Goals ; Evolutionary Spirituality
• Sommario/riassunto: Does the science of evolution really prove that life, humanity, and the universe as a whole are meaningless accidents? On the contrary, as science has increasingly shown how everything in the universe is subject to evolution-including matter, life, and human culture-these very facts reveal that the process of evolution is unmistakably progressive.
• Altri titoli varianti: Evolution's Purpose
• Titolo autorizzato: Evolution's Purpose
• ISBN: 1-59079-248-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910159427403321
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