The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent

The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent

Lent traces how different civilisations — Chinese, Indian, Greek, medieval Christian and modern Western — have each constructed fundamentally different cognitive frameworks for understanding meaning, nature and humanity's place in the cosmos, and argues these deep patterns still shape thought today.

He connects ancient metaphysics to the present ecological crisis, arguing that the West's particular pattern of separating humanity from nature has driven both scientific achievement and environmental catastrophe, and closes by asking what alternative cognitive frameworks, drawn from other traditions, might offer a way forward.

An ambitious cross-cultural history of human meaning-making, connecting ancient thought to the climate crisis.

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