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The world isn't just in crisis. It's in polycrisis, and plenty of people admit that. So why is it so hard to do much about it? This book aims to answer that question. In a word, the answer is power. More accurately it's because of something called the Maximum Power Principle. More accurately still it's down to the default manner in which people, collectively, have put this principle into practice. In order to unpack that claim this book joins the dots provided by a number of different disciplines: sociology, biology, ecology, thermodynamics, complexity science, anthropology, economics, philosophy, and last, but not least, Christian theology. In doing so it argues that the only viable alternative to business as usual involves reconnecting power to wisdom; this means looking afresh at the story of a certain first-century West Asian tradesman.
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Ethics & Moral PhilosophyTable of contents
- Title Page
- Preface
- Introduction: A Nineteen-Terawatt Society
- 1. Useful Work? Power, Material and Social
- 2. Life on the Edge: Maximum Power
- 3. Life on the Edge? Emergent Optimality
- 4. Enough Is Too Little: The Superorganism Emerges
- 5. The Dots and the Numbers: Two Articulations of Being Human
- 6. The Victory of the Cross: Jesus and Power
- 7. Maximum Power Revisited: Of Wattage and Wisdom
- Glossary of Terms
- Bibliography
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