Boundless Reason: A Universal Strategy for Deciding Well

All beings that live in the flow of time seek to survive and to thrive by taking order into and by discarding disorder from themselves and their environments. This book provides a research program for living well based on this simple insight into the business of life. Although we can never know for certain what we need to live well, we can know for certain that we need ever better knowledge of how to live well. We best acquire this knowledge by pursuing the timeless end of deciding well in the natural pursuit of living well. We may break this timeless end into wieldier parts. Taken together these parts form a system of values. Pursuing any one of these values calls for us to decide well, which in turn calls for pursuing all the others. The better we decide, the more tightly these endless pursuits intertwine. From this complex view of deciding well, the whole of science is nothing more than the process of refining everyday thinking. This rings true with Jacob Bronowski’s claim that ” t]he business of science is not to inherit the earth, but to inherit the moral imagination; because without that man and belief and science shall perish together.”

• Format: Trade Paperback
• Author: Harris, S. M.
• ISBN: 9781499618815
• Dimensions: 9.02 x 0.32
• Number Of Pages: 124
• Publication Year: 2014