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Cargando... Los porqués de un escriba filósofopor Martin Gardner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Very honest and enlightening reflections of a skeptical theist. ( ) A fascinating collection of essays by mathematical guru and pseudo-science debunker, Martin Gardner. He is not afraid to tackle the most difficult questions ever asked and to candidly reveal his own, personal thoughts on them. The book provides the most convincing arguments for atheism that I have ever read (and that includes Dawkin's "The God Delusion") but surprisingly Gardner is not an atheist. He calls himself a "philosophical theist". I was not convinced by the reasons he gives. I think it has more to do with his protestant fundamentalist upbringing than he is willing to face.
To put it bluntly, Gardner is a simpleminded fideist who sees himself in the tradition of Kant, William James, and Miguel de Unamuno. It is impossible to imagine anyone reading his outrageous confessional (unless the reader is a clone of Gardner) who, however impressed he may be by the author's wide-ranging erudition and rhetorical skill, will not be infuriated by his idiosyncrasies... How seriously should we take Gardner's fideism? He seems sincere, yet one wonders. After all, the man has a reputation as a hoaxer. His April 1975 column in Scientific American purported to disclose such dramatic breakthroughs as the discovery of a map that required five colors, a fatal flaw in relativity theory, an opening move in chess (pawn to queen's rook four) that is a certain win for white, and a lost parchment proving that Leonardo da Vinci invented the flush toilet. Thousands of readers wrote to tell Gardner where he went wrong, and one irate professor tried to have him expelled from the American Mathematical Society. Happily, the society made him an honorary life member. George Groth, by the way, is one of Gardner's pseudonyms. Pertenece a las series editorialesMetatemas (18)
En Los porques de un escriba filosofo, encontraremos en cambio una admirable confesion personal en la que el defiende, con habilidad, humor y sabiduria, sus opiniones sobre los sempiternos interrogantes de la filosofia clasica que suscitaran sin duda aqui, como ya lo hizo en otros paises, largos y apasionados debates. Contrariamente a muchos pensadores modernos, incluso a los que el mas admira, Gardner se considera un teista, al margen de toda tradicion religiosa todavia abierta a la posibilidad de la inmortalidad. Y con el reflexionaremos sobre muchas cosas que se plantea sobre si mismo. Por ejemplo: sintiendose el seguidor de Platon, Kant, Peirce, James y Unamuno, por que no puede decir de si que es subjetivista, pragmatico, paranormalista, relativista, determinista, anarquista, smithiano, marxista, panteista o ateo. Y, en cambio, si realista, esceptico, fideista, socialdemocrata y admirador de H.G Wells y G.K Chesterton. Sabremos por que el considera que Miguel Angel es un artista mucho masimportante que Jackson Pollock, que Mozart es un compositor mucho mas duradero que John Cage, y Shakespeare, mejor poeta que William Carlos Williams. Y, sobre todo, nos enteraremos de por que cree que ciencia y vida estan enteramente rodeadas por, y entremezcladas al, mas amplio e impenetrable misterio. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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