The three books− Religion in Human Evolution by Robert N. Bellah, Bourgeois Equality by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, consist of several themes that interrelate and overlap. There haves been attempts to understand the human species from the lens of biological evolution, economics and cognitive reasoning. A lot of emphasis is given to the process of natural selection and how it has worked towards ensuring the prosperousness of the human species. The selection of genetic codes has led to the development and spread of culture, commerce and cognition. The power to reason and evaluate the reason is owed to a series of evolutionary steps, which were so rare that it developed in only one species,
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Robert Bellah terms science as a system evolved by humans to ‘break the dreadful fatalities of this world of appearances’. To him, science plays the similar role to that of religion, in which it tries to build the capacity of “beyonding”. McCloskey owes the origin and development of low science to the Revaluation of Commoners somewhere around 1800. With the formulation of bourgeois Deal, further betterment in the scientific domain led to High Sciences which further were responsible for the Great Enrichment.
Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber in their book, The Enigma of Reason view Science as ‘the pinnacle of human reason’. Science uses reason with its biases and limitations but it also benefits from its strengths. The fact that reason allows for evaluation of good arguments keeps science and the scientific community in good stead.
One particular idea that has been strengthened during the course of reading and discussing the books has been my understanding of the cosmos and its origin, which is now commonly referred to as The Big Bang Theory. At present, only the Big Bang Theory seeks to explain the origin of the universe in the most convincing way, taking refuge in logic, reasoning and
Robert Bellah terms science as a system evolved by humans to ‘break the dreadful fatalities of this world of appearances’. To him, science plays the similar role to that of religion, in which it tries to build the capacity of “beyonding”. McCloskey owes the origin and development of low science to the Revaluation of Commoners somewhere around 1800. With the formulation of bourgeois Deal, further betterment in the scientific domain led to High Sciences which further were responsible for the Great Enrichment.
Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber in their book, The Enigma of Reason view Science as ‘the pinnacle of human reason’. Science uses reason with its biases and limitations but it also benefits from its strengths. The fact that reason allows for evaluation of good arguments keeps science and the scientific community in good stead.
One particular idea that has been strengthened during the course of reading and discussing the books has been my understanding of the cosmos and its origin, which is now commonly referred to as The Big Bang Theory. At present, only the Big Bang Theory seeks to explain the origin of the universe in the most convincing way, taking refuge in logic, reasoning and