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2nd ed. |
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1 online resource (168 pages) |
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright Page; Prefatory Note; Body Matter; Section I; 1. Politics and Neo-Darwinism; 2. Shakespeare and Sartre: The Defence of Political Violence; 3. Economic Hardship in Shakespeare's Plays; 4. Intellectual Foci in British Society since 1945; 5. Liberal Politics and Literature; 6. The Idea of a Classless Society; 7. Questions Facing Socialism as a Cultural Outlook; 8. The Welfare State Liberal; Section II; 9. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity; 10. Anti-Bourgeois Attitudes in the West; 11. French Rationality in the 18th Century. |
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12. Mental Perspectives in the West13. Genius and Changes in Social Context; 14. Change and Continuity in Western Intellectual Culture; 15. Philosophy's Position in Contemporary Western Society; Section III; 16. The Aesthetic and the Moral; 17. An Inescapable Duality; 18. Scientific and Poetic Modes of Describing Physical Objects in the World; 19. The Recognition of Causality; 20. Mechanistic and Teleological Causality; 21. Isaiah Berlin on Determinism: A Reply; 22. Essence, Existence, and Identity; 23. Emotivism: The Irreducibility of Feeling-Positions; 24. Kantianism and ... |
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25. The Idea of Power and the Secular Sense of Awe26. The Uses of the Term 'Materialism'; 27. Schopenhauer and Sartre; 28. Spinoza vs. Kant; 29. Morality and the Doctrine of Progressive Historicism; 30. Value-Positions in Dawkins and Darwin; Back Matter; Also Available from Andrews UK and Imprint Academic. |
| Summary |
This collection of essays is eclectic, covering certain political, ethical, cultural, and philosophical topics. But running through all the material is the evolutionary-naturalistic perspective stated in the opening essay, which gives the book its title. Another emphatic feature is a focus on the Western cultural outlook, as the context in which the large number of topics is viewed. This focus is important as a way of re-affirming the distinctive character of Western intellectual and cultura ... |
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Print version record. |
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Evolution (Biology) -- Political aspects.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Life -- Origin.
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Natural selection.
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Social Darwinism.
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Social evolution.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rubens, Tom. Politics and Neo-Darwinism : and Other Essays. Luton : Andrews UK, ©2012 9781845402495 |
| ISBN |
9781845403577 (electronic bk.) |
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1845403576 (electronic bk.) |
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