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Does It Matter? - Essays On Man'S Relation To Materiality

2ªEdição - 2007140 páginasNew World Libraryen
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This is a series of essays representing philosopher Alan Watts's most recent thinking on the astonishing problems of man's relations to his material environment. The basic theme is that civilized man confuses symbol with reality, his ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself, and thus puts himself into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead of the dinner. Thus, with his attention locked upon numbers and concepts, man is increasingly unconscious of nature and of his total dependence upon air, water, plants, animals, insects, and bacteria. He has been hallucinated into the notion that the so-called "external" world is a cluster of "objects" separate from himself, that he "encounters" it, that he comes into it instead of out of it. Consequently, our species is fouling its own nest and is in imminent danger of self-obliteration.

Detalhes do livro

Título
Does It Matter? - Essays On Man'S Relation To Materiality
Autor
Alan Watts
Editora
New World Library
Ano
2026
Páginas
140 páginas
Idioma
EN
ISBN-13
9781577315858
Edição
2ªEdição - 2007
Formato
Paperback

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