ISBN: 9780755214792 - Certainty, That Thing of Indefinite Approximation (4 results)

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Certainty is not what it used to be. Our ancestors had the certainty of their gods, myths and rituals, then of one God, his purposes and the orderliness of all that he had created. The Enlightenment promised a world freed from the lore of the past by the power of human reason; the industrial age a world endlessly made better by the unstoppable force of Progress. Few such absolute certainties survive in the twenty-first century and yet, it seems, we cannot resist the urge to cling on to the old ones, or to fabricate new ones.Why is this so Certainty, that thing of indefinite approximation pieces together answers from an original and sometimes startling mix of sources - ranging from religious and philosophical texts to memoir, fiction and popular science. We would live better with ourselves and with each other, it concludes, if more of us could learn to tolerate 'being in uncertainties'.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorGeoffrey Wilkinson is an independent essayist and sometime translator of Japanese poetry, with no academic or other affiliations. He lives in Wales. His most recent book is Regaining to Know Aright: Natural Knowledg.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Certainty, That Thing of Indefinite Approximation | Geoffrey Wilkinson | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2012 | New Generation Publishing | EAN 9780755214792 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …