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We have built a civilisation on the assumption that if something can be measured, modelled, and explained, we understand it. Everything else is secondary. Optional. A bit suspect.
But what if we've made a catastrophic error?
Soul and Method examines the split that defines modern life: between scientific thinking and philosophical wisdom. Between explanation and meaning. Between optimising our lives and actually living them.
For four hundred years, we've allowed science to become not just a way of knowing, but the way of knowing. We've assumed that what can't be measured doesn't matter. That expertise replaces wisdom. That if we can explain how something works, we understand what it means.
The result? Schools that test everything but teach nothing that matters. Medicine that treats diseases but forgets patients are people. Politics that manages citizens as problems to be optimised. Technology that tracks every moment but leaves us more anxious than ever. A culture that has confused explanation with understanding, and lost the capacity to think about what actually matters.
This isn't a book against science. Science is one of humanity's greatest achievements. But it was never meant to answer every question. It can't tell you what's good. It can't tell you what matters. It can't tell you how to live.
Drawing on Aristotle's paradox of time, forty years of working in extreme environments where technical knowledge was necessary but never sufficient, and a lifetime of watching systems optimised for efficiency forget they're dealing with humans, Sam Dalton traces how we arrived at this moment and what we might recover if we dared to think differently.
Soul and Method is for anyone who has felt their life reduced to metrics they never agreed to. For anyone who suspects we've mistaken the map for the territory. For anyone tired of optimization and hungry for wisdom.
It's a call to recover the other half of your mind. The half that asks not just how, but why. The half that sits with questions instead of rushing to solutions. The half that treats your life as something to be lived, not managed.
Stop optimising. Start thinking. Recover what we've lost.


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  • ISBN-13: 9798275943146
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • ISBN-10: 8275943140
  • Publisher Date: 24 Nov 2025


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