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Cargando... Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist (2017)por Richard Dawkins
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An eclectic mix of Dawkins' shorter writings. Some are essays, some are pastiches, some are epistles to specific persons. Detailed reviews of individual works: I. The Values of Science Dolittle and Darwin: Discusses the Dr. Dolittle series which fired his scientific imagination when he was a child. When he, later, encountered Darwin, the two seemed similar, which makes sense to me. I think I read the books when I was a kid, but I remember them not at all. I really want to give them another go. This is a compilation of short writings by Richard Dawkins on a wide variety of topics. There are several problems with such a book including that Dawkins is not qualified to have expertise in many of the topics. So basically we have someone's opinion, who is presumably taking a rationale approach to these topics. I am disappointed with the book as it is disjoint and while I agree with Dawkins on many points, especially on science, I think he has overstepped his bounds. I cannot recommend this book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Textos escogidos de un racionalista apasionado La ciencia en el alma reúne cuarenta y dos ensayos, debates y homenajes que abarcan tres décadas, y llega en un momento oportuno y necesario. En una época de fake news y de cuestionamiento de creencias universales, en este apasionado alegato Dawkins insiste en que la razón sea la protagonista de nuestra vida, dejando de lado comportamientos execrables como la xenofobia o la misoginia, que deberían quedar fuera de todo relato. Asimismo recalca la importancia de las pruebas empíricas y critica la mala praxis científica, la presencia de la religión en las escuelas y a los negacionistas del cambio climático. Precisamente ahora, cuando tanta gente cuestiona la realidad de la evolución, Dawkins se pregunta qué pensaría Darwin de su propio legado, y reconoce que la ciencia es poseedora de muchas de las virtudes de la religión —«explicación, consuelo e inspiración»— sin la pesada carga que aquella conlleva: la superstición y el prejuicio. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I'm also slightly taken aback by the fact that he doesn't practice what he preaches. One example is how important it is that nothing is fully one thing or another, but he will multiple times tell you of other things he doesn't approve of, and how incredibly bad these things are, belittling people associated with said things.
Some of these pieces should also have just stayed as tweets, there were no need to elaborate them in order to get to publish them somewhere. This book is also littered with weird flexes, but okay..
In conclusion, sadly he is too much a product of his time and culture for the message he is trying to deliver to come all the way across. ( )