达尔文的大教堂
Darwin's Cathedral
David Sloan Wilson · 初版 2002 年
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“从十六世纪日内瓦的加尔文主义到巴厘岛的水神庙，从狩猎采集社会到美国都市，Wilson 证明了宗教如何让人们通过集体行动实现单凭个人绝对无法达成的目标。他还包含了一章从演化角度考察宽恕的内容，并在结论中探讨了包括科学在内的所有社会组织如何通过融入宗教元素而获益。宗教信徒常将自己的社群比作单个有机体，甚至比作昆虫群体。令人惊叹的是，Wilson 指出他们或许
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阻止人们为所欲为，其实是社会的一项重要功能。读完戴维·斯隆·威尔逊（David Sloan Wilson）的《达尔文的大教堂》（Darwin's Cathedral）后，我与宗教达成了和解。在我看来，它非常清楚地解释了宗教是如何成为组织更大规模社会的工具的。如果没有宗教的力量，我们人类根本走不到今天这一步。那里……
Preventing people from doing some of what they want is actually an important function of society. I made my peace with religions after reading Darwin's Cathedral by David Sloan Wilson. To me it explained very well how religions were a tool for organizing ever larger societies. We wouldn't be where we are as humanity if we hadn't had the power of religion. There…
戴维·斯隆·威尔逊的《达尔文的大教堂》让我彻底与宗教达成了和解。现在我有一套框架来理解宗教行为背后的缘由了。读一读埃里克·霍弗的《狂热分子》和《隐秘的真相，公开的……
"Darwin's Cathedral" by David Sloan Wilson allowed me to come to peace with religion. Now I have a framework to understand why religions do what they do. Reading "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer and "Private Truths, Public…
……历史。但那些能引起共鸣或有用的东西保留了下来。宗教是演化过程的产物，就像所有演化过程一样，它改变缓慢且并不完美。D.S. 威尔逊的《达尔文的大教堂》是探讨这个论点的必读书目，书中有一段非常精彩的话是这么说的：我们看着鸟类的翅膀，惊叹于它们为了飞行演化得如此绝妙。但我们并不会因为鸟类……而嘲笑它们。
…history. But the things that resonated or were useful have remained. Religion is the result of evolutionary processes and like all evolutionary processes it changes slowly and is not perfect. D.S. Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral is the go-to book for this argument and contains a beautiful section that goes like this: We look at a bird's wing and marvel that it is so wonderfully adapted for flying. But we do not scorn birds for…
当年失去信仰时，我也问过许多同样的问题。在 D.S. 威尔逊的《达尔文的大教堂》里，我找到了令人信服的答案，解释了为什么我心中会有一个“上帝形状的空洞”。虽然花了15年，但我终于想明白我们到底他妈的该为此做些什么了。
I asked many of these same questions when I lost my faith. I found compelling answers as to why I had a god shaped hole in D.S. Wilson’s Darwin’s Cathedral. It’s taken 15 years, but I also finally have plans about what the fuck we should be doing about it.
……我们有了国家级规模的生命体。我注意到许多成功的社会都有着强大的内部协作文化，尽管它们可能会发生分裂，比如亚伯拉罕诸教。不管怎样，我正在读《达尔文的大教堂》（我向一个 LLM 询问这个想法时它推荐给我的），那本书加上这个部落的故事，直接让我彻底成了这个观点的铁杆信徒，哈哈！
…we have nation-sized beings. And I notice that many successful societies have strong cultures of internal cooperation, though they might schism, e.g. Abrahamic religions. Anyway, I'm some way through Darwin's Cathedral (recommended to me by an LLM when I asked about this idea) and that book plus the story of this tribe have served to shove me firmly into the land of absolute belief in this idea haha!
……文献调研。有个例子很贴切：我当时对部落是如何演化等问题有一些想法，想到哪就写到哪，然后 ChatGPT 成功帮我查到《达尔文的大教堂》这本书，它对这个主题的各种更严谨的看法做出了好得多的综合梳理。
…literature research. An example of something where it worked like this is that I had some ideas around how tribes evolve and so on and wrote them as I could think of them and ChatGPT was able to find that Darwin’s Cathedral had a far better synthesis of various much more rigorous takes on the subject.