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Alien Life and Human Purpose

- A Rhetorical Examination through History
Af: Joseph Packer Engelsk Hardback

Alien Life and Human Purpose

- A Rhetorical Examination through History
Af: Joseph Packer Engelsk Hardback
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Alien Life and Human Purpose: A Rhetorical Examination through History provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or “unity,” to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Although the unity myth has often existed in the background of society, shaping institutions and values, during periods where relativism gained prominence, its opponents actively wielded the unity myth as a response; Plato used the unity myth against the sophists, Anglican theologian and philosopher William Whewell against the utilitarians, co-discoverer of evolution Alfred Russell Wallace against the social Darwinists, university professors Frank J. Tipler and John D. Barrow against the postmodernists, etc. These individuals presented scientific defenses of unity and then used the “fact” of unity to claim the universe is teleological, knowable, and ordered, rather than chaotic and relativistic. This book argues that unity and its complimentary mythic function have played an important role in shaping values throughout history and more importantly continue to do so today.
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Alien Life and Human Purpose: A Rhetorical Examination through History provides a rhetorical examination of the way major historical figures connect their arguments for the absence of alien life, or “unity,” to their philosophical, religious, and ethical agendas. Although the unity myth has often existed in the background of society, shaping institutions and values, during periods where relativism gained prominence, its opponents actively wielded the unity myth as a response; Plato used the unity myth against the sophists, Anglican theologian and philosopher William Whewell against the utilitarians, co-discoverer of evolution Alfred Russell Wallace against the social Darwinists, university professors Frank J. Tipler and John D. Barrow against the postmodernists, etc. These individuals presented scientific defenses of unity and then used the “fact” of unity to claim the universe is teleological, knowable, and ordered, rather than chaotic and relativistic. This book argues that unity and its complimentary mythic function have played an important role in shaping values throughout history and more importantly continue to do so today.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 262
ISBN-13: 9781498513012
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1498513018
Kategori: Semantik, diskursanalyse, stilistik
Udg. Dato: 17 sep 2015
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 161mm
Højde: 234mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 17 sep 2015
Forfatter(e): Joseph Packer
Forfatter(e) Joseph Packer

Kategori Semantik, diskursanalyse, stilistik

ISBN-13 9781498513012

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 262

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 161mm

Højde 234mm

Udg. Dato 17 sep 2015

Oplagsdato 17 sep 2015

Forlag Lexington Books

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