02585nam 2200553Ia 450 991096382420332120200520144314.097815955880051595588000(CKB)2670000000356294(EBL)927952(SSID)ssj0000873886(PQKBManifestationID)12369394(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873886(PQKBWorkID)10877510(PQKB)10450229(MiAaPQ)EBC927952(Perlego)2442425(EXLCZ)99267000000035629420120814d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe self beyond itself an alternative history of ethics, the new brain sciences, and the myth of free will /Heidi M. RavvenNew York New Pressc20131 online resource (527 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781595585370 1595585370 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments; 1 Searching for Ethics; 2 Moral Lessons of the Holocaust About Good and Evil, Perpetrators and Rescuers; 3 The Overwhelming Power of the Group and the Situation; 4 What Happened to Ethics:The Augustinian Legacy of Free Will; 5 Another Modernity: The Moral Naturalism of Maimonides and Spinoza; 6 Surveying the Field; 7 Beginning Again; 8 T e Self in Itself; 9 The Self Beyond Itself; 10 What Is Ethics?; Notes; IndexFew concepts are more unshakable in Western culture than free will, the idea that people are fundamentally free to make good or bad decisions. Scholar Heidi M. Ravven throws a wrench into this conventional view, calling free will a myth that reflects the still-powerful influence of Christian theology on our popular thinking.The Self Beyond Itself offers a riveting and accessible review of modern neuro-scientific research into the brain's capacity for decision-making?from mirror neurons and self-mapping to surprising new understandings of the dynamics of group psychology. UlEthicsNeurosciencesFree will and determinismEthics.Neurosciences.Free will and determinism.170Ravven Heidi M.1952-1806670MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963824203321The self beyond itself4356489UNINA