The Essential Mary MidgleyDavid Midgley Routledge, 2 Ağu 2004 - 424 sayfa Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects for the first time the very best of this famous philosopher's work, described by the Financial Times as 'common sense philosophy of the highest order'. |
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Part One The Roots of Human Nature | 21 |
Have We a Nature? | 23 |
Animals and the Problem of Evil | 39 |
Speech and Other Excellences | 58 |
The Problem of Natural Evil | 78 |
The Elusiveness of Responsibility | 88 |
Selves and Shadows | 100 |
Evolutionary Dramas | 239 |
The Irresistible Escalator | 246 |
The Service of Self and the Service of Kali | 257 |
Biotechnology and the Yuk Factor | 269 |
The Supernatural Engineer | 281 |
The Remarkable Masculine Birth Of Time | 290 |
Part Four Reason and Imagination | 303 |
The Sources of Thought | 306 |
Emotion Emotiveness and Sentimentality | 110 |
Equality and Outer Darkness | 122 |
Is a Dolphin a Person? | 132 |
Part Two Philosophizing Out in the World | 143 |
Philosophical Plumbing | 146 |
Wisdom and Contemplation | 153 |
The Withdrawal of Moral Philosophy | 163 |
Escaping from Solitude | 184 |
The Human Heart and Other Organs | 198 |
On Trying Out Ones New Sword on a Chance Wayfarer | 218 |
Part Three The Myths of Science | 225 |
Salvation and the Academics | 228 |
The Quest for Permanence | 319 |
Putting Our Selves Together Again | 330 |
A Plague on Both Their Houses | 340 |
Putting it All Together | 347 |
Individualism and the Concept of Gaia | 349 |
The Role of Wonder | 359 |
Why there is Such a Thing as Society | 367 |
The Unity of Life | 373 |
Notes | 379 |
Bibliography | 400 |
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