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The ethical primate humans, freedom, and morality
Title:
The ethical primate humans, freedom, and morality
Author:
Midgley, Mary, 1919-
ISBN:
9780203287507

9780203029848
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Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 193 p.)
Contents:
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;
Abstract:
Mary Midgley argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, both explains why and how human freedom and morality have come about.
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