Verkäufer Athena Rare Books ABAA, Fairfield, CT, USA
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Half title with a list of other books by Midgley on the verso + TP + [v] = Dedication page (to Jane Goodall) + vii-viii = Contents + ix = Acknowledgments + half title + 3-193 + 1 blank leaf, Octavo. First Edition. In "The Ethical Primate", 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. There is no room either inside nor outside these crude pictures for any realistic notion of the self.Why should these theories insist on only one kind of answer? She claims 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. Publisher's original dust jacket over black boards with silver lettering on the spine. With the bookplate of a former owner (Robert F. Thimmesh) to the side front cover. Overall, a fine copy. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1361
Bibliografische Details
Titel: The Ethical Primate: Humans, freedom and ...
Verlag: Routledge, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Auflage: FIRST EDITION.
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