Leaving us to Wonder

This book is the outcome of a collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher posing the question of how to live well in a technoscientific culture. This necessarily involves moving beyond scientism - hence the subtitle above and the focus on science and ethics in a general sense. Our knowledge of the world is in turn related to our self-knowledge which the authors examine with the help of Merleau-Ponty. They home in on the work of the French philosopher Pierre Hadot and his book 'Philosophy as a Way of Life'. The practising philosopher is not simply at theoretician but one who cares for others, an ethical as well as a knowing being. Human consciousness is in fact the precondition of the very possibility of science.