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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Mary Midgley (1919-2018) was one of the most renowned moral philosophers of her generation and the author of many books, including Beast and Man, Wickedness and The Myths We Live By. She has taken part in many broadcast events, including The Moral Maze and Woman's Hour.
In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' (TLS), addresses the fundamental question of human freedom.
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. In her new book, Mary Midgley argues that the unrealistic isolation of mind and body in reductive scientific ideologies still causes painful confusion. Such ideologies present crude pictures which are not good science, since they ignore the manifest importance of the higher human faculties. Neither inside nor outside these crude pictures is there room for any realistic notion of the self. Why should these theories insist on only one kind of answer? There is not just one single legitimate explanation. There are as many answers as there are viewpoints from which questions arise - subjective and objective, practical as well as theoretical. Human morality arises out of human freedom: we are uniquely free beings in that we are aware of our conflicts of motive. But those conflicts and our capacity to resolve them are part of our natural inheritance. Although our selves are in many ways divided, we share the difficult project of wholeness with other organisms. What matters for our freedom is the recognition of our genuine agency, our slight but nevertheless real power to grasp and arbitrate our inner conflicts. Artikel-Nr. CIN041513224XG
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Zustand: New. Mary Midgley argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, both explains why and how human freedom and morality have come about. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212. . 1996. New Ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. V9780415132244
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