In Search For Human Essence
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In Search Of Human Nature
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Author : Mary E. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-18
In Search Of Human Nature written by Mary E. Clark and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-18 with Philosophy categories.
In this magisterial new work, biologist Mary Clark argues that the Western view of human nature is built around highly atomistic and ideological framework that encourages us to think about the world and ourselves in the wrong way.
In Search Of Human Nature
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Author : Carl N. Degler
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992-11-05
In Search Of Human Nature written by Carl N. Degler and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-11-05 with Science categories.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1972, and a past president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, Carl Degler is one of America's most eminent living historians. He is also one of the most versatile. In a forty year career, he has written brilliantly on race (Neither Black Nor White, which won the Pulitzer Prize), women's studies (At Odds, which Betty Friedan called "a stunning book"), Southern history (The Other South), the New Deal, and many other subjects. Now, in The Search for Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, providing a fascinating overview of the social sciences in the last one hundred years. The idea of a biological root to human nature was almost universally accepted at the turn of the century, Degler points out, then all but vanished from social thought only to reappear in the last four decades. Degler traces the early history of this idea, from Darwin's argument that our moral and emotional life evolved from animals just as our human shape did, to William James's emphasis on instinct in human behavior (then seen as a fundamental insight of psychology). We also see the many applications of biology, from racism, sexism, and Social Darwinism to the rise of intelligence testing, the eugenics movement, and the practice of involuntary sterilization of criminals (a public policy pioneered in America, which had sterilization laws 25 years before Nazi Germany--one such law was upheld by Oliver Wendell Holmes's Supreme Court). Degler then examines the work of those who denied any role for biology, who thought culture shaped human nature, a group ranging from Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, to John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner. Equally important, he examines the forces behind this fundamental shift in a scientific paradigm, arguing that ideological reasons--especially the struggle against racism and sexism in America--led to this change in scientific thinking. Finally, Degler considers the revival of Darwinism without the Social Darwinism, racism, and sexism, led first by ethologists such as Karl von Frisch, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, and Jane Goodall--who revealed clear parallels between animal and human behavior--and followed in varying degrees by such figures as Melvin Konner, Alice Rossi, Jerome Kagen, and Edward O. Wilson as well as others in anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics. What kind of animal is Homo sapiens and how did we come to be this way? In this wide ranging history, Carl Degler traces our attempts over the last century to answer these questions. In doing so, he has produced a volume that will fascinate anyone curious about the nature of human beings.
In Search Of Human Nature
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Author : Mary E. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-18
In Search Of Human Nature written by Mary E. Clark and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-18 with Philosophy categories.
Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark takes the most recent data from a dozen or more fields, and works it together with clarifying anecdotes and thought-provoking images to challenge conventional Western beliefs with hopeful new insights. Balancing the theories of cutting-edge neuroscience with the insights of primitive mythologies, Mary Clark provides down-to-earth suggestions for peacefully resolving global problems. Human Nature builds up a coherent, and above all positive, picture of who we really are.
In Search For Human Essence
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Author : Brian Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-02-02
In Search For Human Essence written by Brian Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-02 with categories.
The know thyself (Gnothi Seauton), inscribed in the temple of Delphi in Ancient Greece, and assigned to one of the Seven Sages of Antiquity, was popularized by Socrates, and after more than 2,400 years, it is still current. Some questions about this commandment went through the history of philosophy and still today are objects of reflections: why to know thyself? How to know thyself? What to know? The answers are in the very texts that describe the Socratic dialogues.Without intending to join the harvest of deep philosophical discussions, the author analyzes these reflections attributed to Socrates under the optics of the philosophy of religion and theology, without being tied to any particular religious group. With a language accessible and supported on messages of philosophers and spiritualists of all ages, like Buddha and Jesus, the assay allows the reader, even without previous philosophical knowledge, to reflect on one of the main messages of Antiquity for humanity.
Nature The Nature Of Human Nature
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Author : David Inglis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2005
Nature The Nature Of Human Nature written by David Inglis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Nature categories.
Many influential stances within the social sciences regard nature in one of two ways: either as none of their concern (which is with the social and cultural aspects of human existence), or as wholly a social and cultural fabrication. But there is also another strand of social scientific thinking that seeks to understand the interplay between social and cultural factors on one side and natural factors on the other. These volumes contain the main contributions that have been made within each of these streams of thought. The selections illustrate to the reader the complexity of the various positions within these streams, and the strengths and limitations of each perspective. A new introduction places these articles in their historical and intellectual context and the volumes are completed with an extensive index and chronological table of contents.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Human Essence
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Author : Martijn van Zomeren
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Oxford Handbook Of The Human Essence written by Martijn van Zomeren and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Medical categories.
Advances in social-psychological theorizing and research suggest that humans can be viewed as biological beings as well as cultural creatures, rational reasoners as well as emotional enigmas, moral minds as well as amoral agents. Edited by Martijn van Zomeren and John F. Dovidio, this handbook expertly articulates both what social psychology can tell us about the human essence, and the astonishing range of perspectives reflected within this field.
Evolutionary Theory And Human Nature
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Author : Ron Vannelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Evolutionary Theory And Human Nature written by Ron Vannelli and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
Evolutionary Theory and Human Nature is an original, highly theoretical work dealing with the transition from genes to behavior using general principles of evolution, especially those of sexual selection. It seeks to develop a seamless transition from genes to human motivations as bio-electric brain processes (emotional-cognitive processes), to human nature propensities (various constellations of emotional-cognitive forces, desires and fears) to species typical patterns of behavior. This work covers two often antagonistic fields: biology and the social sciences. It should be of strong interest to anthropologists, sociologists, sociobiologists, psychobiologists and psychologists who are interested in the question of human nature influences on social behavior.
Reading Human Nature
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Author : Joseph Carroll
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2011-03-01
Reading Human Nature written by Joseph Carroll and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Science categories.
As the founder and leading practitioner of "literary Darwinism," Joseph Carroll remains at the forefront of a major movement in literary studies. Signaling key new developments in this approach, Reading Human Nature contains trenchant theoretical essays, innovative empirical research, sweeping surveys of intellectual history, and sophisticated interpretations of specific literary works, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wuthering Heights, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Hamlet. Evolutionists in the social sciences have succeeded in delineating basic motives but have given far too little attention to the imagination. Carroll makes a compelling case that literary Darwinism is not just another "school" or movement in literary theory. It is the moving force in a fundamental paradigm change in the humanities—a revolution. Psychologists and anthropologists have provided massive evidence that human motives and emotions are rooted in human biology. Since motives and emotions enter into all the products of a human imagination, humanists now urgently need to assimilate a modern scientific understanding of "human nature." Integrating evolutionary social science with literary humanism, Carroll offers a more complete and adequate understanding of human nature.
Language Cognition And Human Nature
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Author : Steven Pinker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-11
Language Cognition And Human Nature written by Steven Pinker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11 with Computers categories.
Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition, perception, social relationships, child development, human evolution, and theories of human nature. This eclectic collection spans Pinker's thirty-year career, exploring his favorite themes in greater depth and scientific detail. It includes thirteen of Pinker's classic articles, ranging over topics such as language development in children, mental imagery, the recognition of shapes, the computational architecture of the mind, the meaning and uses of verbs, the evolution of language and cognition, the nature-nurture debate, and the logic of innuendo and euphemism. Each outlines a major theory or takes up an argument with another prominent scholar, such as Stephen Jay Gould, Noam Chomsky, or Richard Dawkins.
On Human Nature
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Author : Jonathan H. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-24
On Human Nature written by Jonathan H. Turner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Social Science categories.
In this book, Jonathan H. Turner combines sociology, evolutionary biology, cladistic analysis from biology, and comparative neuroanatomy to examine human nature as inherited from common ancestors shared by humans and present-day great apes. Selection pressures altered this inherited legacy for the ancestors of humans—termed hominins for being bipedal—and forced greater organization than extant great apes when the hominins moved into open-country terrestrial habitats. The effects of these selection pressures increased hominin ancestors’ emotional capacities through greater social and group orientation. This shift, in turn, enabled further selection for a larger brain, articulated speech, and culture along the human line. Turner elaborates human nature as a series of overlapping complexes that are the outcome of the inherited legacy of great apes being fed through the transforming effects of a larger brain, speech, and culture. These complexes, he shows, can be understood as the cognitive complex, the psychological complex, the emotions complex, the interaction complex, and the community complex.