Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Part 1: Wondering about Ourselves
Chapter 1: Born to Wonder: Asking Questions; Hoping for Answers
Chapter 2: Who Are We?: Wondering about Human Nature
Chapter 3: Human Identity: Mapping the Landscape
Part 2: Wondering about Life: The Human Quest for Meaning
Chapter 4: Pilgrims Seeking a “Big Picture”: The Balcony and the Road
Chapter 5: Searching for Meaning: Why We Need More Than Just Facts
Chapter 6: Meaning: Discovery or Invention?
Chapter 7: When Meaning Fails: Doubt, Trauma, and Disbelief
Chapter 8: Wondering about Nature: The Imaginative Roots of Science
Chapter 9: At Home in the Universe?: Wondering about Our Place in the Cosmos
Part 3: Wondering about Our Future
Chapter 10: What’s Wrong with Us?: Why We Need the Idea of Sin
Chapter 11: Humanisms: Secular and Religious
Chapter 12: The Myth of Progress: Reshaping Humanity
Chapter 13: Endings: Some Brief Musings