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245 10 $aOn purpose /$cMichael Ruse.
264 1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2018]
264 4 $c©2018
300 $axv, 294 pages ;$c23 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-283) and index.
505 0 $aAthens -- Jerusalem -- Machines -- Evolution -- Charles Darwin -- Darwinism -- Plato redivivus -- Aristotle redivivus -- Human evolution -- Mind -- Religion -- The end.
520 $a"A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present. Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin's theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. Indeed, teleological explanation--what Aristotle called understanding in terms of "final causes"--seems to be making a comeback today, as both religious proponents of intelligent design and some prominent secular philosophers argue that any explanation of life without the idea of purpose is missing something essential. In On Purpose, Michael Ruse explores the history of the idea of purpose in philosophical, religious, scientific, and historical thought, from ancient Greece to the present. Accessibly written and filled with literary and other examples, the book examines "purpose" thinking in the natural and human world. It shows how three ideas about purpose have been at the heart of Western thought for more than two thousand years. In the Platonic view, purpose results from the planning of a human or divine being; in the Aristotelian, purpose stems from a tendency or principle of order in the natural world; and in the Kantian, purpose is essentially heuristic, or something to be discovered, an idea given substance by Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection. On Purpose traces the profound and fascinating implications of these ways of thinking about purpose."--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aTeleology.
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650 0 $aIntentionality (Philosophy)$xHistory.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)$xPhilosophy.
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