00:00:00Intro: "Recumbent Speech," by Ezra Feinberg
00:00:55Evolution as a Religion
00:03:44An Outline of the Argument
00:21:01Pivot in Chs. 17 & 18
00:25:23Next Month: Contact
00:25:59Credits & Show Info
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What had Mary Midgley so incredibly angry in the 1980s, and what did she do about it?
Evolution as a Religion, Mary Midgley Show Notes- Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene
- “Superman” and Friedrich Nietzsche
- David Hume
- Immanuel Kant
- The other book Chris is reading on politics &c. currently: Politics and the Order of Love, Eric Gregory
Here’s another great cover of the book from the ’80s!
Have to climb to Omega, man! Upcoming Book- October (8.18 and 8.19): Contact, Carl Sagan
- November (8.20 and 8.21): Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufecki. You can also download it from Tufecki’s website as a PDF.
- “Acquainted with the Night” by Ezra Feinberg. Used by permission, please don’t use without permission.
- “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, meaning you can do whatever you want with this music… as long as you share it for others to likewise do what they want.
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