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Of Genes, Gods and Tyrants - Biology, Morality - Camilo José Cela-Conde - Reidel
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- ISBN-10
- 1556080360
- ISBN-13
- 9781556080364
- ISBN
- 9781556080364
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
ISBN-10
1556080360
ISBN-13
9781556080364
eBay Product ID (ePID)
615774
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
Xii, 202 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Of Genes, Gods and Tyrants
Subject
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, History & Surveys / Modern
Publication Year
1987
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
87-016409
Dewey Edition
19
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
171/.7
Table Of Content
1. Moral levels.- 2. The Alpha-moral level. In the beginning was Darwin.- 3. The Beta-moral level: to feel or to reason. The Kantian obstacle.- 4. The Beta-moral level. The good and the yellow.- 5. The Beta-moral level: rational preference from Smith to Rawls.- 6. The Gamma-moral level: genes and tyrants.- 7. The Delta-moral level: gods and genes.- 8. Moral progress.- 9. Adversus liberales: the right to excellence and distributive justice.- Notes.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.
Synopsis
Our future was with the collective, but our survival was with the individual, and the paradox was killing us everyday. John Le Carre Smiley's People (1979) Since the time of Ancient Greek lyrical poetry, it has been one of man's dreams to explain his own conduct. This is the background to all his activities, from literature to speculative philosophy, including those odds and ends which, for want of a better name and more precise boundaries are called "human science". Over the past nine or ten years a new member has been added to this inquisitive family, one which, moreover, claims to be scientific to an extremely high degree: biology. This is in fact a recurrent event, since theses designed to introduce causal biological expla nations into the general field of human action had already been formulated on at least two occasions (in original Darwinism and the Neo-Darwinist synthesis). Ethologists and sociobiologists are today taking over and as suring us that they have the necessary tools to provide an answer to what perhaps seemed the most slippery subject in the hands of science: the social being. As might be expected, philosophers have reacted with some scepticism. Though human conduct is undoubtedly subject to determinants, the lion's share of responsi bility lies with society itself. At the time when biology was beginning to develop the theories necessary to overcome cre ationism, Karl Marx had already managed to construct highly sophisticated interpretive models of human social behaviour., Our future was with the collective, but our survival was with the individual, and the paradox was killing us everyday. John Le Carre Smiley's People (1979) Since the time of Ancient Greek lyrical poetry, it has been one of man's dreams to explain his own conduct. This is the background to all his activities, from literature to speculative philosophy, including those odds and ends which, for want of a better name and more precise boundaries are called "human science." Over the past nine or ten years a new member has been added to this inquisitive family, one which, moreover, claims to be scientific to an extremely high degree: biology. This is in fact a recurrent event, since theses designed to introduce causal biological expla- nations into the general field of human action had already been formulated on at least two occasions (in original Darwinism and the Neo-Darwinist synthesis). Ethologists and sociobiologists are today taking over and as- suring us that they have the necessary tools to provide an answer to what perhaps seemed the most slippery subject in the hands of science: the social being. As might be expected, philosophers have reacted with some scepticism. Though human conduct is undoubtedly subject to determinants, the lion's share of responsi- bility lies with society itself. At the time when biology was beginning to develop the theories necessary to overcome cre- ationism, Karl Marx had already managed to construct highly sophisticated interpretive models of human social behaviour., Our future was with the collective, but our survival was with the individual, and the paradox was killing us everyday. John Le Carre Smiley's People (1979) Since the time of Ancient Greek lyrical poetry, it has been one of man's dreams to explain his own conduct. This is the background to all his activities, from literature to speculative philosophy, including those odds and ends which, for want of a better name and more precise boundaries are called "human science". Over the past nine or ten years a new member has been added to this inquisitive family, one which, moreover, claims to be scientific to an extremely high degree: biology. This is in fact a recurrent event, since theses designed to introduce causal biological expla- nations into the general field of human action had already been formulated on at least two occasions (in original Darwinism and the Neo-Darwinist synthesis). Ethologists and sociobiologists are today taking over and as- suring us that they have the necessary tools to provide an answer to what perhaps seemed the most slippery subject in the hands of science: the social being. As might be expected, philosophers have reacted with some scepticism. Though human conduct is undoubtedly subject to determinants, the lion's share of responsi- bility lies with society itself. At the time when biology was beginning to develop the theories necessary to overcome cre- ationism, Karl Marx had already managed to construct highly sophisticated interpretive models of human social behaviour.
LC Classification Number
BJ1-1725
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