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Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird

- Human kind’s unbearable realities – and what might be gained by accepting them
Af: Richard Oerton Engelsk Paperback

Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird

- Human kind’s unbearable realities – and what might be gained by accepting them
Af: Richard Oerton Engelsk Paperback
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Taking its title from lines in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets – “Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind cannot bear very much reality” – this book sets out to expose some of the realities which, at this stage of our evolution, human beings cannot bear to accept. Successive chapters examine rationality, conscience, religion, perception, sexuality, free will, moral responsibility and crime, pointing out the incomprehension which mars our approach to each topic. One of the book’s themes is that we are still, below the surface, a savage species, clinging to our misconceptions because they liberate and justify our cruelty to one another.

Despite its deadly serious and controversial approach, the book is enlivened by humour, personal stories, quotes from others and bits of poetry. It is not academic but readily accessible to the general reader. In the last chapter, the author sums up by saying that, although the human species now is what it is, some of us can imagine a better one: “A species that isn’t irrational, ignorant, credulous, uncomprehending, self-defeating, ill at ease with its sexuality, mired in contradictory beliefs, impelled by a savagery let loose by misperception and misunderstanding”, and asks: “Could this imaginary species ever become a real one?”.

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Taking its title from lines in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets – “Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind cannot bear very much reality” – this book sets out to expose some of the realities which, at this stage of our evolution, human beings cannot bear to accept. Successive chapters examine rationality, conscience, religion, perception, sexuality, free will, moral responsibility and crime, pointing out the incomprehension which mars our approach to each topic. One of the book’s themes is that we are still, below the surface, a savage species, clinging to our misconceptions because they liberate and justify our cruelty to one another.

Despite its deadly serious and controversial approach, the book is enlivened by humour, personal stories, quotes from others and bits of poetry. It is not academic but readily accessible to the general reader. In the last chapter, the author sums up by saying that, although the human species now is what it is, some of us can imagine a better one: “A species that isn’t irrational, ignorant, credulous, uncomprehending, self-defeating, ill at ease with its sexuality, mired in contradictory beliefs, impelled by a savagery let loose by misperception and misunderstanding”, and asks: “Could this imaginary species ever become a real one?”.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9781836281016
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1836281013
Kategori: Samfunds- & politisk filosofi
Udg. Dato: 28 jan 2025
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 217mm
Højde: 139mm
Forlag: Troubador Publishing
Oplagsdato: 28 jan 2025
Forfatter(e): Richard Oerton
Forfatter(e) Richard Oerton

Kategori Samfunds- & politisk filosofi

ISBN-13 9781836281016

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 217mm

Højde 139mm

Udg. Dato 28 jan 2025

Oplagsdato 28 jan 2025

Forlag Troubador Publishing

Kategori sammenhænge