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Volume 1 · Part VI

Knowledge & Meaning

Consilience, philosophy and meaning, ethics, religion, and creativity.

Part VI · Chapters 20–24

Knowledge & Meaning

Consilience, philosophy and meaning, ethics, religion, and creativity.

Chapter 20

Consilience

The unity of knowledge and the reunification of learning

Chapter 21

Philosophy, Meaning & Existence

Naturalism, the evolutionary epic, and meaning without transcendence

Chapter 22

Ethics & the Moral Sense

The biology of morality and the empiricist grounding of ethics

Chapter 23

Religion, Myth & the Sacred

The evolution of faith and the search for common ground

Chapter 24

Scientific Life & Creativity

The origins of creativity and the call for a Third Enlightenment