I dont quite understand how Dawkins has become such a sage and so prominent She says she doesnt want to keep on attacking Dawkins, but he appears once again in Are You an Illusion? as a leading representative of what Midgley sees as a kind of self-deceiving fatalism, namely the conviction that the universe has no purpose, that it contains at bottom, as Dawkins has written, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. Midgley insists that no one can know this, and that there is in fact much evidence to suggest there is purpose. Our own planet, she argues, is riddled with purpose… full of organisms, beings that all steadily pursue their own characteristic ways of life, beings that can be understood only by grasping the distinctive thing that each of them is trying to be and do.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:30:45 +0000
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