The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality

Mary Midgley

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Routledge, 1996

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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.…

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Titolo
The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom and Morality
Autore
Mary Midgley
Editore
Routledge
Anno di pubblicazione
1996
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
041513224X
ISBN 13
9780415132244

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