Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit

ISBN-13: 9780313399190 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 399 str.

Charles David Pruett

Opis

Defining a moment in human self-awareness four centuries in the making, "Reason and Wonder: A Copernican Revolution in Science and Spirit" offers a way to move beyond the either/or choice of reason versus intuition--a dichotomy that ultimately leaves either the mind or the heart wanting. In doing so, it seeks to resolve an age-old conflict at the root of much human dysfunction, including today's global ecological crisis.

An outgrowth of C. David Pruett's breakthrough undergraduate honors course, "From Black Elk to Black Holes: Shaping Myth for a New Millennium," "Reason and Wonder" embraces the insights of modern science and the wisdom of spiritual traditions to "re-enchant the universe." The new "myth of meaning" unfolds as the story of three successive "Copernican revolutions"--cosmological, biological, and spiritual--offers an expansive view of human potential as revolutionary as the work of Copernicus, Galilleo, and Darwin.