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- catalog abstract ""With infectious enthusiasm and a gift for conveying the excitement of ideas, Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) discusses the impact of science on our sense of self and the need to revaluate ethics in light of the scientific perspective. As both a practicing scientist and an author of books on poetry, he makes interesting connections between the uses of the imagination in science and in literature. Whereas science creates experiments to test hypotheses about the outside world, he notes that literature also provides "experiments" in poetry and prose, allowing readers to experience what it means to be fully human and relating the individual's inner life to that of every human being. Bronowski argues that a true humanistic philosophy must give equal place to the inner, subjective vision of the arts and the outer, objective perception of science since they are both products of one self-conscious creative imagination. In the final analysis, he emphasizes that these perspectives converge to reveal a more enlightened, universal ethics, one that fosters tolerance, mutual understanding, an appreciation of differences, and a sense that we all share a common destiny as human participants in nature's cosmic drama."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12666806.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""With infectious enthusiasm and a gift for conveying the excitement of ideas, Jacob Bronowski (1908-1974) discusses the impact of science on our sense of self and the need to revaluate ethics in light of the scientific perspective. As both a practicing scientist and an author of books on poetry, he makes interesting connections between the uses of the imagination in science and in literature. Whereas science creates experiments to test hypotheses about the outside world, he notes that literature also provides "experiments" in poetry and prose, allowing readers to experience what it means to be fully human and relating the individual's inner life to that of every human being.".
- catalog description "A Machine or a Self? -- The Machinery of Nature -- Knowledge of the Self -- The Mind in Action.".
- catalog description "Bronowski argues that a true humanistic philosophy must give equal place to the inner, subjective vision of the arts and the outer, objective perception of science since they are both products of one self-conscious creative imagination. In the final analysis, he emphasizes that these perspectives converge to reveal a more enlightened, universal ethics, one that fosters tolerance, mutual understanding, an appreciation of differences, and a sense that we all share a common destiny as human participants in nature's cosmic drama."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xi, 107 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1591020255 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Great minds series".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books,".
- catalog subject "128 21".
- catalog subject "BD450 .B653 2002".
- catalog subject "Philosophical anthropology.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Self (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Machine or a Self? -- The Machinery of Nature -- Knowledge of the Self -- The Mind in Action.".
- catalog title "The identity of man / Jacob Bronowski.".
- catalog type "text".