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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