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To this end, he has assembled a laundry list of people and events from various reference texts, and generated numerous graphs and rankings of genius figures: Leonardo Da Vinci than Michelangelo? A major problem with this approach-beyond equating "importance" with the number of times an artist or work is referenced in texts-is that the reference texts used as data sources do not themselves seem free of cultural bias or chauvinism: Another problem is that other, less affluent cultures may have had many plundered or lost works, or may not have a tradition of naming writers and other luminaries-or keeping track of and promoting their works through secondary material.
Further, plenty of attention is lavished on forms such as painting but comparatively little to architecture or to non-Western forms of music. The book's cursory treatment of Africa outside of Egypt also leaves more to be desired.
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Murray claims to have corrected for these factors, and finds that Western culture still dominates "accomplishment" either way. The chapters describing achievement at the book's beginning are, at many points, well-written and informative, but they end up clouded with the latter part of the book's numerical hubris and grand pronouncements.
Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc. Achievements that require mental and spiritual effort are the highest forms of human endeavor, Murray says. He has scanned the most reputable biographical dictionaries and histories of the arts, philosophy, and sciences to find who and what, during B. He came up with 4, persons and a list of events and ponders 20 persons in each of nine scientific, three philosophic, and nine artistic fields who were most extensively covered in the resources.
More than 80 percent are "dead white males," and Murray carefully examines why. The greatest achievements of India, China, Japan, and Islam occurred well before the West took off during the Renaissance, and each of those cultures valued duty, family, and consensus, whereas the West prefers individualism, the sine qua non of scientific debate and discovery.
Further, the scientific method was a set of Western "meta-inventions" Murray's term that arose, fortunately, simultaneously with the ratification of Thomism, with its dual emphasis on faith and reason, by the most important cultural force in the West, the Roman Catholic Church.
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Of overarching importance to great achievements in any culture, Murray argues, are the sense that life has purpose and belief in ideals of beauty, truth, and goodness. This book probably won't get Murray in as much hot water as The Bell Curve did. Then again, with its speculations that the rate of great achievements has slowed since and that the arts are in a very bad way, maybe it will. A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. Read more Read less. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life.
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Harper; 1 edition Oct. From Publishers Weekly Co-author with the late Richard Herrnstein of the neo-racialist book The Bell Curve, Murray returns with a mammoth solo investigation that is less likely to spur controversy than provoke a simple "so what? From Booklist Achievements that require mental and spiritual effort are the highest forms of human endeavor, Murray says.
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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Human Accomplishment sets out to demolish one large, stupid idea that has society in its firm grip: The methodology that Charles Murray uses, and the evidence he presents, is so comprehensive and precise, that it will leave most people thoroughly persuaded of the falsity of these doctrines, and cause most cultural egalitarians to sputter in rage.
Murray's message is profoundly unpopular in some quarters, because it makes a strong case that western civilization has been so predominantly productive of human accomplishment. Charles Murray presents three questions in this book. First, can historiometric techniques be used to produce a survey of human accomplishment in the arts and sciences over time and across cultures?
Second, are there any obvious patterns in the data? And third, why are those patterns present? The answer to the first question is certainly "yes". Murray uses the extent of coverage of scientists and artists in standard reference works on each field that he investigates.
Basically he counts the number of times figures are mentioned and the amount of space their work is given. He makes a heroic effort to ensure that the results are not skewed by reliance on single works or works in a single language. While many may deride this methodology as bunk, the surprising thing is that the listings "look right".