His perspective on life's meaning(s) carries an overall tone that shadows his self-described personal past, one that emphasizes morality's entwinement with the social and the wonderment of the "in-between" in all of its strangeness and peculiarity." - Alison K.
RUSE MEANING PROFESSIONAL
"Overall, the book is informed by both the broadly historical and personal qualities that follow from Ruse's professional expertise. Ruse argues that it is only by accepting our true nature-evolved over millennia- that humankind can truly find what is meaningful. Rather, meaning in the Darwinian age can be found if we turn to a kind of Darwinian existentialism, seeing our evolved human nature as the source of all meaning, both in the intellectual and social worlds. In A Meaning to Life, Michael Ruse argues that this is a false turn, and there is no real progress in the evolutionary process. Wilson, evolution is seen as progress-"from monad to man"-and that positive meaning is found in continuing and supporting this upwards path of life. Ruse explains that, in a tradition going back to the time of Darwin himself, and represented today by the evolutionist E. If God no longer exists-or if God no longer cares-rather than promoting a bleak nihilism, many Darwinians think we can convert Darwin into a form of secular humanism. The historian and philosopher of science Michael Ruse investigates this question, and wonders whether we can find a new meaning to life within Darwinian views of human nature. Ever since, with the rise of science and decline of religious belief, there has been growing interest-and growing doubt-about whether human life really does have meaning.
In the 19th century, however, Charles Darwin's theory of evolution changed everything-and the human organism was seen to be more machine than spirit.
RUSE MEANING SERIES
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