Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind: The Early Writings of Charles Darwin - Softcover

Darwin, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226136590 ISBN 13: 9780226136592

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2011

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Book by Darwin Charles

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"The serious Darwinist will want to possess the two notebooks with Barrett's notes and also a section including 'Old and useless Notes about the moral sense & some metaphysical points' ('useless' to Darwin in the 1850s, but not to us)." -Isis"

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First published in 1974 as a companion volume to Howard E. Gruber's "Darwin on Man", Paul H. Barrett's transcriptions of Darwin's M and N notebooks served to shed new light on the evolutionist's methods and motivation. Writing in the "New York Times Book Review", Stephen Jay Gould explained: "Darwin kept [these notebooks] primarily in 1838, when he was 29 years old. In them, he recorded his early conviction of evolutionary continuity between humans and all other animals...These notebooks display all the features of humanistic intellect that his detractors denied. We find erudition in his comments on Plato, Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Whewell, Burke, Montaigne, Lessing and Spencer...We appreciate an artistic bent in his delight with nature and her prophet Wordsworth...We grasp the breadth of his bold attempt to clothe all human thought and behaviour in a new evolutionary garb...Charles Darwin was reconstructing the world and he knew exactly what he was doing."

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0226136590
• ISBN 13: 9780226136592
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252