Neither Gods Nor Beasts

Preface 1. Introduction PART I: HUMANITY IN A PRESCIENTIFIC UNIVERSE 2. Living on Automatic Pilot 3. Between Gods and Beasts 4. Our Negative Image of Our Animal Self 5. Mind, Souls, Ideals, and the Ephemeral PART II: CONFRONTING AND RECOGNIZING OUR BIOLOGY 6. Biology Becomes Mechanistic and Emerges as a Science 7. The Human Body Is Composed of Cells 8. The Body Evolves 9. Most Human Traits Are Determined by Genes, Which Are Composed of DNA 10. We Have a Life Cycle and Sexuality That Is Genetically Programmed 11. Neurobiology Reveals How the Brain Works PART III: HOW SHOULD WE PERCEIVE HUMANITY IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM? 12. The Blank Slate, the Human Nature, and the Biological Determinism Fallacies 13. Human Nature as Potentials for Forming Communities 14. Science Enriches Our Appreciation of the Arts and Humanities 15. Moral Values Bind a Community 16. The Human Condition and Our World View Change Every Generation 17. Rethinking Science Teaching 18. A Human Outlook for the Third Millennium Index