The essential Mary Midgley / / edited by David Midgley
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| Autore: |
Midgley Mary <1919-2018, >
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| Titolo: |
The essential Mary Midgley / / edited by David Midgley
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 192 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy, British - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
MidgleyDavid <1953->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-404) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 HAVE WE A NATURE?; 2 ANIMALS AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL; 3 SPEECH AND OTHER EXCELLENCES; 4 THE PROBLEM OF NATURAL EVIL; 5 THE ELUSIVENESS OF RESPONSIBILITY; 6 SELVES AND SHADOWS; 7 EMOTION,EMOTIVENESS AND SENTIMENTALITY; 8 EQUALITY AND OUTER DARKNESS; 9 IS A DOLPHIN A PERSON?; Part Two – Philosophizing Out in the World; 10 PHILOSOPHICAL PLUMBING; 11 WISDOM AND CONTEMPLATION; 12 THE WITHDRAWAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY; 13 ESCAPING FROM SOLITUDE; 14 THE HUMAN HEART AND OTHER ORGANS |
| 15 ON TRYING OUT ONE 'S NEW SWORD ON A CHANCE WAYFARERPart Three – The Myths of Science; 16 SALVATION AND THE ACADEMICS; 17 EVOLUTIONARY DRAMAS; 18 THE IRRESISTIBLE ESCALATOR; 19 THE SERVICE OF SELF AND THE SERVICE OF KALI; 20 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE YUK FACTOR; 21 THE SUPERNATURAL ENGINEER; 22 THE REMARKABLE MASCULINE BIRTH OF TIME; Part Four – Reason and Imagination; 23 THE SOURCES OF THOUGHT; 24 ATOMISTIC VISIONS; 25 PUTTING OUR SELVES TOGETHER AGAIN; 26 A PLAGUE O | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This anthology includes carefully chosen selections from her best-selling books, including Wickedness, Beast and Man, Science and Poetry and The Myths We Live By. An unrivalled introduction to a great philosopher, and includes a |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The essential Mary Midgley |
| ISBN: | 1-134-27997-3 |
| 1-280-17716-0 | |
| 0-203-31963-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458026003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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