Author: John Fiske
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385345510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Excursions of an Evolutionist
Author: John Fiske
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385345510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385345510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics
Author: Paul Lawrence Farber
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520213696
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are built into human nature and can be discovered through knowledge of evolutionary theory. Farber describes three upsurges of enthusiasm for evolutionary ethics. The first came in the early years of mid-nineteenth century evolutionary theories; the second in the 1920s and '30s, in the years after the cultural catastrophe of World War I; and the third arrived with the recent grand claims of sociobiology to offer a sound biological basis for a theory of human culture. Unlike many who have written on evolutionary ethics, Farber considers the responses made by philosophers over the years. He maintains that their devastating criticisms have been forgotten—thus the history of evolutionary ethics is essentially one of oft-repeated philosophical mistakes. Historians, scientists, social scientists, and anyone concerned about the elusive basis of selflessness, altruism, and morality will welcome Farber's enlightening book.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520213696
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are built into human nature and can be discovered through knowledge of evolutionary theory. Farber describes three upsurges of enthusiasm for evolutionary ethics. The first came in the early years of mid-nineteenth century evolutionary theories; the second in the 1920s and '30s, in the years after the cultural catastrophe of World War I; and the third arrived with the recent grand claims of sociobiology to offer a sound biological basis for a theory of human culture. Unlike many who have written on evolutionary ethics, Farber considers the responses made by philosophers over the years. He maintains that their devastating criticisms have been forgotten—thus the history of evolutionary ethics is essentially one of oft-repeated philosophical mistakes. Historians, scientists, social scientists, and anyone concerned about the elusive basis of selflessness, altruism, and morality will welcome Farber's enlightening book.
The Kansas City Public Library Quarterly
Author: Kansas City Public Library (Kansas City, Mo.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Dictionary Catalogue ...
Author: Illinois State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Crisis from Within: Historians, Theory, and the Humanities
Author: Nigel Raab
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004292721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In The Crisis from Within, Nigel Raab explores weaknesses that emerge when using interdisciplinary theories in historical analysis. With chapters that focus on knowledge, language, memory, imagining and inventing, and civil society, the analysis reveals how theoretical applications can be the source of interpretive confusion. By drawing from a global range of historical works, Nigel Raab demonstrates how this problem concerns all historical sub-fields. From science in the seventeenth century to communism in the twentieth century, theories often overdetermine analysis in a way the historian never intended. After the enthusiastic reception of theory for over a generation, The Crisis from Within argues that the time has come to pause and think seriously about how we wish to proceed with theory.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004292721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In The Crisis from Within, Nigel Raab explores weaknesses that emerge when using interdisciplinary theories in historical analysis. With chapters that focus on knowledge, language, memory, imagining and inventing, and civil society, the analysis reveals how theoretical applications can be the source of interpretive confusion. By drawing from a global range of historical works, Nigel Raab demonstrates how this problem concerns all historical sub-fields. From science in the seventeenth century to communism in the twentieth century, theories often overdetermine analysis in a way the historian never intended. After the enthusiastic reception of theory for over a generation, The Crisis from Within argues that the time has come to pause and think seriously about how we wish to proceed with theory.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (Of 2) With Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
Author: John Fiske
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465511431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465511431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Catalogue, 1890
Author: Medfield (Mass. : Town). Public Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Catalogue of All Books in the Circulating and Reference Departments of the Public School Library, Columbus ...
Author: Columbus (Ohio). Public School Library
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1204
Book Description
Facing West
Author: Richard Drinnon
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129280
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129280
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
American expansion, says Richard Drinnon, is characterized by repression and racism. In his reinterpretation of "winning" the West, Drinnon links racism with colonialism and traces this interrelationship from the Pequot War in New England, through American expansion westward to the Pacific, and beyond to the Phillippines and Vietnam. He cites parrallels between the slaughter of bison on the Great Plains and the defoliation of Vietnam and notes similarities in the language of aggression used in the American West, the Philippines, and Southeast Asia.
The United States Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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