书名: The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality
作者: Mary Midgley (Author)
出版社: Routledge; New edition (March 26, 1996)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 041513224X
ISBN-13: 978-0415132244
Book Description
In The Ethical Primate, renowned philosopher Mary Midgley tackles important questions about human freedom and morality. Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human being can be both a living part of the natural world and, at the same time, a genuinely free agent. Midgley explores their responses to this seeming paradox and argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, explains why human freedom and morality have come about.
Review
"...the book is witty and unsentimental, with occasional scattered treasures to be found." -- The Philosophical Review, Susan Wolf, Johns Hopkins University
"Midgley (Can't We Make Moral Judgments, St. Martin's, 1994) aims at making evolutionary sense of human freedom and our capacity for morality. She analyzes and rejects as 'folk psychology' the reductivism that dismisses the concepts with which we normally live. She claims that, because reductivists ignore the first-person view of agency, they cannot understand human freedom, and she therefore proposes a nonreductive pattern of explanation that enables her to bring together objective and subjective points of view. Midgley contends that morality is a response to natural conflicts of motive, emphasizing that we are far more aware than other animals of our own individuality and, unlike them, not only act but recognize the actions of others as actions. Clearly written and well argued, this commonsensical book will be profitable reading for anyone with a serious interest in ethical ideas and their application. Recommended for academic and public libraries." -- Robert Hoffman, York Coll., CUNY, Library Journal
About the Author
Mary Midgley, former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, is the author of Science as Salvation, Wisdom, Information and Wonder and Wickedness, all published by Routledge.
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作者: Mary Midgley (Author)
出版社: Routledge; New edition (March 26, 1996)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 041513224X
ISBN-13: 978-0415132244
Book Description
In The Ethical Primate, renowned philosopher Mary Midgley tackles important questions about human freedom and morality. Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human being can be both a living part of the natural world and, at the same time, a genuinely free agent. Midgley explores their responses to this seeming paradox and argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, explains why human freedom and morality have come about.
Review
"...the book is witty and unsentimental, with occasional scattered treasures to be found." -- The Philosophical Review, Susan Wolf, Johns Hopkins University
"Midgley (Can't We Make Moral Judgments, St. Martin's, 1994) aims at making evolutionary sense of human freedom and our capacity for morality. She analyzes and rejects as 'folk psychology' the reductivism that dismisses the concepts with which we normally live. She claims that, because reductivists ignore the first-person view of agency, they cannot understand human freedom, and she therefore proposes a nonreductive pattern of explanation that enables her to bring together objective and subjective points of view. Midgley contends that morality is a response to natural conflicts of motive, emphasizing that we are far more aware than other animals of our own individuality and, unlike them, not only act but recognize the actions of others as actions. Clearly written and well argued, this commonsensical book will be profitable reading for anyone with a serious interest in ethical ideas and their application. Recommended for academic and public libraries." -- Robert Hoffman, York Coll., CUNY, Library Journal
About the Author
Mary Midgley, former Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, is the author of Science as Salvation, Wisdom, Information and Wonder and Wickedness, all published by Routledge.
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