03403oam 2200649I 450 991078139260332120230126204043.01-136-80752-71-283-10375-397866131037581-136-80753-50-203-82832-110.4324/9780203828328(CKB)2550000000032992(EBL)683951(OCoLC)727061395(SSID)ssj0000539370(PQKBManifestationID)12251419(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539370(PQKBWorkID)10570940(PQKB)11565552(MiAaPQ)EBC683951(Au-PeEL)EBL683951(CaPaEBR)ebr10466425(CaONFJC)MIL310375(EXLCZ)99255000000003299220180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe myths we live by /Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the authorAbingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (297 p.)Routledge classicsOriginally published: 2004. With new foreword.1-138-83479-3 0-415-61024-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Mary Midgley The Myths We Live By; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword To The Routledge Classics Edition; 1. How myths work; 2. Our place in the world; 3. Progress, science and modernity; 4. Thought has many forms; 5. The aims of reduction; 6. Dualistic dilemmas; 7. Motives, materialism and megalomania; 8. What action is; 9. Tidying the inner scene: why memes?; 10. The sleep of reason produces monsters; 11. Getting rid of the ego; 12. Cultural evolution?; 13. Selecting the selectors; 14. Is reason sex-linked?; 15. The journey from freedom to desolation16. Biotechnology and the yuk factor17. The new alchemy; 18. The supernatural engineer; 19. Heaven and earth, an awkward history; 20. Science looks both ways; 21. Are you an animal?; 22. Problems about parsimony; 23. Denying animal consciousness; 24. Beasts versus the biosphere?; 25. Some practical dilemmas; 26. Problems of living with otherness; 27. Changing ideas of wildness; Notes; IndexWith a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, is a today a potent force. Far from being the opposite of science, however, Midgley argues that myth is a central part of it. Myths are neither lies nor mere stories buRoutledge classics.MythSocial aspectsHistoryCivilization, ModernPhilosophyMythSocial aspectsHistory.Civilization, ModernPhilosophy.201/.3Midgley Mary1919-,554950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781392603321The myths we live by2052182UNINA