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Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions : How Tales About Love, Sex, Races, Gods and Progress Affect Our Lives and Earth's Splendor by Rui Diogo(auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Whatever are your beliefs, background, education, political views or interests, one thing is sure: this book will engage you, teach you something new, and more importantly make you to re-think deeply about critical aspects of your daily-life, including sex, love, food, physical activities, diseases, work and stress, and how you see and deal with other people, other animals, and the planet in general. Indeed, it focuses on topics that have fascinated people from all places and historical periods since times immemorial: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? Are we progressing, and will we thrive? It does this by integrating in a unique fashion information from ancient Greek, Sumerian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian and Muslim texts to high-tech brain research, facts about near-death experiences, Covid-19, QAnon conspiracies, virtual reality and dating aps; from Adam and Eve to the rise of misogyny and racism to Black Lives Matter, Me-Too, Hollywood romantic movies and Disney fairy-tales. Contrary to notions about 'human progress' and '__Homo Deus'__ defended by authors such as Harari, Pinker and Dawkins, it shows that human history instead involves the repetition of simil
Who reads Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions : How Tales About Love, Sex, Races, Gods and Progress Affect Our Lives and Earth's Splendor?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rui Diogo(auth.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319704012
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Medical
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