Evolution of Human Wisdom (eBook)

Celia Deane-Drummond, Agustin Fuentes (Herausgeber)

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2017
236 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-4846-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume tackles crucial questions about the puzzle of human origins and human distinctiveness related to the evolution of human wisdom. In doing so it offers a novel methodological approach to the dialogue between theology and evolutionary science.

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This volume addresses key questions about the puzzle of human origins by focusing on a topic that is largely unexplored thus far, namely, the evolution of human wisdom. How can we best understand the human capacity for wisdom, where did it come from, and how did it emerge? It explores lines of convergence and divergence between Christian theology and evolutionary anthropology in its search to identify different aspects of wisdom. Critical to this discussion are the philosophical difficulties that arise when two very different methodological approaches to the manner of humans becoming wise are brought together. The relative importance and significance of human language is another area of intense debate in defining the meaning of wisdom and its expression. How far and to what extent does a theologically informed wisdom discourse push evolutionary anthropology to formulate new questions and vice versa?This volume shows that there is no simple consonance between evolutionary anthropology and theology. Yet, each discipline has much to learn from the other; the authors are in agreement that even in the midst of an awareness of dissonance and some tension, there can still be mutual respect. The goal of this book is to begin to develop a trans-disciplinary approach to the evolution of human wisdom, where each discipline is challenged to ask questions in a new way. This volume tackles the relationship between theology and science in a fresh way by focusing on a specific themewisdomthat is equally generative for both theology and evolutionary anthropology.

Autor

Celia Deane-Drummond is professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.Agustín Fuentes is professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.

Inhalt

Celia Deane-Drummond and Agustín FuentesDylan BeltonMarc Kissel Marcus Baynes-RockBen CampbellHomo Sapiens Sapiens: The Human as Homemaker by Julia Feder Stewart Clem Craig IfflandAdam Willows Celia Deane-Drummond Agustín Fuentes

Rezensionen

Homo sapiens may have evolved, but what about human sapientia or wisdom? Can we explain how it emerged from biological evolution? The Evolution of Human Wisdom takes up this challenge. Contributors agree that wisdom requires intelligence and language. They all insist, however, that wisdom is much more than cleverness. It is something deeply human, coming into existence and making possible the complex totality of our creative interactions with nature, technology, and society. Wisdom arises within our evolution and affects its course, both in the shrouded past and the uncharted future. The Evolution of Human Wisdom is intelligent, informed, creative . . . in a word, wise.

Seldom are books on wisdom as wise or cogently argued as Celia Deane-Drummond and Augustin Fuentes’ splendid new collected volume. Their interdisciplinary inquiry will be an invaluable resource for scholar and student alike interested in the evolutionary origins of human wisdom, both secular and sacred.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2017
• Co-Autor: Marc Kissel, Adam Willows, Marcus Baynes-Rock, Dylan Belton, Ben Campbell, Stewart Clem, Celia Deane-Drummond, Julia Feder, Agustin Fuentes, Craig Iffland
• Vorwort: Jeremy Kendal
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 2 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: domestication • Evolutionary anthropology • Human distinctiveness • Human wisdom • language • Philosophy • Semiotics • Theology and Science • wisdom
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-4846-6 / 1498548466
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-4846-5 / 9781498548465