Meaning of Life, Human Nature, and Delusions: How Tales about Love, Sex, Races, Gods and Progress Affect Our Lives and Earth's Splendor

The book challenges the notion of human progress and offers a unique perspective on the history of religion, discrimination, romantic love, warfare, diseases, and Earth's biodiversity. It argues that the sapient being is immersed in a world of unreality and that these tales play crucial functions in helping people cope with death and societal troubles. The author provides enthralling details about the history of religion, discrimination, romantic love, warfare, diseases, and Earth's biodiversity, illustrating how virtue is in the middle and that we are not better or worse than other living species.

Format: Hardback
Length: 863 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2021
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book is designed to engage, educate, and challenge your perspectives on various aspects of daily life, including sex, love, food, physical activities, diseases, work, stress, and your interactions with others, animals, and the planet. It explores timeless questions such as "Why are we here?" and "What is the meaning of life?" by drawing from ancient Greek, Sumerian, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim texts, as well as cutting-edge brain research, near-death experiences, Covid-19, QAnon conspiracies, virtual reality, and dating apps. It challenges the notion of human progress and Homo Deus, arguing that human history is characterized by the repetition of similar imaginary tales created by a combination of traits found in other animals and the uniquely human obsession with cosmic purpose stories related to our awareness of death's inevitability. Organized religions emerged later, primarily during the rise of agriculture and civilizations. Diogo navigates mesmerizing untold stories that reveal a paradox: these events and the industrial revolution have increased inequality, oppression, slavery, subjugation of women, famines, plagues, work, stress, and suicides. Data from psychology, biology, neurobiology, and cross-cultural studies of hunter-gatherers and developed societies support this claim.

Weight: 1466g
Dimension: 244 x 162 x 58 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783319704005
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022