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Singer Peter <1946-> |
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A Darwinian Left : politics, evolution, and cooperation / / Peter Singer |
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New Haven : , : Yale University Press, , 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (81 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human evolution |
Right and left (Political science) |
Social Darwinism |
Socialism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-70) and index. |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""The need for a new foundation""; ""What is essential to the left?""; ""1 Politics and Darwinism""; ""The right-wing takeover""; ""Facts and values""; ""How the left got Darwin wrong""; ""The dream of perfectibility""; ""Old tunes keep coming back""; ""2 Can the Left Accept a Darwinian View of Human Nature?""; ""Unpopular ideas""; ""What is fixed and what is variable in human nature?""; ""How can reformers leam from Darwin?""; ""3 Competition or Cooperation?""; ""Building a more cooperative society""; ""The prisoner's dilemma"" |
""Learning from Tit for Tat""""4 From Cooperation to Altruism?""; ""The puzzle of the evolution of altruism""; ""Status for what?""; ""5 A Darwinian Left for Today and Beyond""; ""Notes and References"" |
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