Tuesday, July 09, 2013
A transformative cultural role for sociobiology
Philosophical psychologist
Raymond Cattell writes about Lord Snow's “two cultures" as
“literature-art” (instinctive, rooted in play and fantasy) and
“science-engineering” (rooted in curiosity and reality testing.)
Then Cattell distinguish
between “feeling liberals,” who operate more in literature and
the arts, and “thinking liberals” who are more frequently in
science. Feeling liberals are as vulnerable to emotional distortions
as the average man, and it is the feeling liberals who communicate
(often very well) with the man on the street and influence him, while
the thinking liberals are in their backroom laboratories.
It seems to me that in our educational
philosophy what we need is a far more
transformative cultural role for sociobiology, in both the arts and
sciences. This is the vital change needed. Who is holding
back these changes and why? This might be a good expose/study for
a dissertation/book by someone with a base in both the arts and sciences... With sociobiology enhanced, then evolutionary
religion will be better able to provide the deeper base needed for present and future culture.
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