C. H. Waddington

The Ethical Animal (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1960, this book discusses the ethical implications of the view of man's nature and his place in the biological world. C. H. Waddington highlights issues of the time, such as social upheavals related to social mobility, and the changing nature of philosophical thinking in relation to the nature of good.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317352129
• Artikelnr.: 48839134

Autorenporträt

C. H. Waddington

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. The Importance of Ethics 2. Human Value and Biological Wisdom 3. Squaring the Vienna Circle 4. The Relevance of Developmental Facts 5. The 'Naturalistic Fallacy' 6. The Concept of Function 7. The Possibility of Evolutionary Theory 8. The Shape of Biological Thought; or the Virtues of Vicious Circles 9. The Biological Evolutionary System 10. The Human Evolutionary System 11. The Course of Evolutionary Progress 12. The Evolution of the Socio-genetic System 13. Human Evolution and the Fall of Man 14. Freedom and Reason 15. Understanding and Believing 16. Biological Wisdom and the Problems of Today; References; Index