1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200072840

Autore

Wolff, Christian

Titolo

21,I: Gesammelte kleine philosophische Schriften / Christian Wolff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hildesheim ; New York, : Olms Verlag, 1981

Edizione

[Nachdruck der Ausgabe Halle, 1736]

Descrizione fisica

[22], 560 p., [3] p. di tav. : ill. ; 21 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

(gc)

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783637203321

Autore

Clark Mary E.

Titolo

In search of human nature / / Mary E. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-44768-X

1-134-44769-8

1-280-13796-7

0-203-98713-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (577 p.)

Disciplina

599.93/8

Soggetti

Human evolution

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (455-488) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; Introduction: framing the problem; I Questioning the "scientized" image; II Why we primates are not "game theorists"; III The selecting of Homo sapiens; IV Brain matters; V A thirst for meaning; VI How



experience shapes the brain; VII "Who am I?" - where biology and culture meet; VIII History, the story of meanings through time; IX Humankind crosses the Rubicon, 1900-2000; X Conflict: control or reconciliation?; XI The search for autonomy within community; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark takes the most recent data from a dozen or more fields, and works it together with clarifying anecdotes and thought-provoking images to challenge conventional Western beliefs with hopeful new insights. Balancing the theories of cutting-edge neuroscience with the insights of primitive mythologies, Mary Clark provides down-to-earth suggestions for peacefully resolving global problems. Human Nature builds up a coherent, and above all po