Menu
Виж статуса на поръчката
Свържете се с нас
Книга Beyond Evolution Anthony O'Hear

Beyond Evolution

Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation

Автор: Anthony O'Hear
Език: Английски език
Корици: С твърди корици
Издател: Oxford University Press
Наличност: Външен склад
Изпращаме след 10-18 дни
126.44 € 247.29 лв
Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolutio...

Информация за книгата

Автор
Anthony O'Hear
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С твърди корици
Издадена
1997
страници
230
EAN
9780198242543
ISBN
0198242549
Enbook ID
04523932
Издател
Oxford University Press
Теглоt
531
Размери
163 x 243 x 19

Пълно описание

Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature of human self-consciousness, and argues that evolutionary theory cannot give a satisfactory account of such distinctive facets of human life as the quest for knowledge, moral sense, and the appreciation of beauty; in these we transcend our biological origins. It is our rationality that allows each of us to go beyond not only our biological but also our cultural inheritance: as the author says in the Preface, 'we are prisoners neither of our genes nor of the ideas we encounter as we each make our personal and individual way through life'.

Може също да ви хареса

Cold Blood

Katherine M Lawrence
18.77 € 36.72 лв

Клиенти, които купиха тази книга, купиха също

Alle freuen sich: Jesus ist auferstanden. Kamishibai Bildkartenset

Gesa Rensmann
14.32 € 28.00 лв