It's almost 2000 pages long and I haven't finished it (I stopped at one of the last chapters, which is on the sacred, as I don't think I care about a philosopher writing on the sacred. I may come back to it though), but what I read (almost 90%) was worth it. I think it would be very useful for someone who believes materialism and its con…
It's almost 2000 pages long and I haven't finished it (I stopped at one of the last chapters, which is on the sacred, as I don't think I care about a philosopher writing on the sacred. I may come back to it though), but what I read (almost 90%) was worth it. I think it would be very useful for someone who believes materialism and its concomitant vision of the clockwork universe is the truth (don't know if these are your metaphysics), as it would definitely break that.
There's a great chapter exploring all the ways in which organisms are not machines, since quite a lot of biologists do conceptualize organisms as an elaborate clockwork.
It's almost 2000 pages long and I haven't finished it (I stopped at one of the last chapters, which is on the sacred, as I don't think I care about a philosopher writing on the sacred. I may come back to it though), but what I read (almost 90%) was worth it. I think it would be very useful for someone who believes materialism and its concomitant vision of the clockwork universe is the truth (don't know if these are your metaphysics), as it would definitely break that.
There's a great chapter exploring all the ways in which organisms are not machines, since quite a lot of biologists do conceptualize organisms as an elaborate clockwork.
Oh wow, ok well then I appreciate the cliffnotes. Thank you!