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The ethical primate : humans, freedom, and morality / / Mary Midgley
| The ethical primate : humans, freedom, and morality / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina | 170/.42 |
| Soggetto topico |
Free will and determinism
Human beings Human evolution - Moral and ethical aspects Ethics |
| ISBN |
1-134-82694-X
1-280-33268-9 0-203-02984-4 1-134-82695-8 0-203-28750-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; INNER DIVISIONS; MISGUIDED DEBATES; GUIDING VISIONS; HOPES OF SIMPLICITY; CRUSADES, LEGITIMATE AND OTHERWISE; CONVERGENT EXPLANATIONS AND THEIR USES; TROUBLES OF THE LINEAR PATTERN; FATALISM AND PREDICTABILITY; AGENCY AND ETHICS; MODERN MYTHS; THE STRENGTH OF INDIVIDUALISM; THE RETREAT FROM THE NATURAL WORLD; HOW FAR DOES SOCIABILITY TAKE US?; THE USES OF SYMPATHY; ON BEING TERRESTRIAL; WHAT KIND OF BEINGS ARE FREE?; MINDS RESIST STREAMLINING; Notes; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783823403321 |
Midgley Mary <1919-, >
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| New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 | ||
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The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author
| The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 201/.3 |
| Collana | Routledge classics |
| Soggetto topico |
Myth - Social aspects - History
Civilization, Modern - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-136-80752-7
1-283-10375-3 9786613103758 1-136-80753-5 0-203-82832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 desolation
16. 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781392603321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919-, >
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The solitary self : Darwin and the selfish gene / / Mary Midgley
| The solitary self : Darwin and the selfish gene / / Mary Midgley |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (v, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 171.9 |
| Collana | Heretics |
| Soggetto topico |
Self-interest
Evolution (Biology) Evolutionary psychology |
| ISBN |
1-317-48823-7
1-317-48824-5 1-315-71020-X 1-280-12013-4 9786613524027 1-84465-483-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Pseudo-Darwinism and social atomism -- The background: egoism from Hobbes to R.D. Laing -- The natural springs of morality -- Coming to terms with reason -- Darwin's new broom -- The self's strange adventures -- Conclusion: the wider perspective. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779038603321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919-, >
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| London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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