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The roots of morality /
This book argues the case for a foundationalist ethics centrally based on an empirical understanding of human nature. For Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, "an ethics formulated on the foundations of anything other than human nature, hence on anything other than an identification of pan-cultural human r...
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©2008.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue Human Nature and Human Morality: The Challenge of Grounding the Moral Sense
- I. Introduction
- II. The Foundations Laid by Hume in His Moral Philosophy
- III. On the Origin of Sympathy and Selfishness: An Initial Determination
- IV. Unevenly Valorized Binary Oppositions: A Question of Life and Death
- V. Hume's Affective Polarity Revisited
- VI. The Culture/Nature Opposition
- From the Perspective of Mythology and Religion
- From the Perspective of Patriarchal Symbolism
- From the Perspective of Practices in Present- Day Western Science
- From the Perspective of the Cultural Practice of War
- VII. Conclusion
- Notes
- Part I
- CHAPTER 1 Size, Power, and Death: Constituents in the Making of Human Morality
- I. Introduction
- II. Size and Power
- III. Cultural Translations of Biological Facts
- IV. Cultural Transformations and Evolutionary Ethics
- V. Immortality Ideologies
- VI. Implications
- Notes
- CHAPTER 2 Death and Immortality Ideologies in Western Philosophy
- I. Introduction
- II. Descartes
- On the Purpose of the Meditations as Specified in the Synopsis
- Mind as Immaterial Substance
- Mind and the Question of Time
- III. Heidegger and Immortality Ideologies
- IV. Psychological Underpinnings of Immortality Ideologies
- V. Derrida's Immortality Reading of Husserl and Derrida's Own Immortality Ideology
- VI. The Double: A Further Sign of Derrida's Immortality Ideology
- VII. The Last Word and the Ultimate Mortal Question
- Notes
- CHAPTER 3 Real Male-Male Competition
- I. Introduction
- II. On Natural and Sexual Selection
- III. Darwin's Seminal Insights into Male-Male Competition and Their Total Neglect in Current Research
- IV. Exemplifications
- V. Evolutionary Considerations
- VI. A Methodological Imperative and A Closing Apologue
- VII. An Afterword
- Notes
- CHAPTER 4 On the Pan-Cultural Origins of Evil
- I. Introduction
- II. The Banality of Evil
- III. Affective Elaborations of the Banality of Evil
- IV. Toward Pan-Cultural Understandings of the Banality of Evil
- V. Beginning Evolutionary Considerations
- VI. Clarifications Along Motivational Lines
- VII. Killing, Death, Fear: Elementary Facts of Human Life
- VIII. Warriors and the Heroic Honing of Males
- IX. A Finer Analysis of Motivation
- X. Broader Socio-Political Understandings of the Heroic Honing of Males: A Return to Evolutionary Considerations
- XI. Classic Studies: An Afterword on History and Science
- Notes
- Part II
- CHAPTER 5 Empathy
- I. Introduction
- II. Early Clues and Husserl's Archival Texts
- III. Affect Attunement and the Qualitative Nature of Movement
- IV. Emotions and Movement
- V. Spontaneity
- VI. The Kinetic Foundations of ''Knowing Other Minds''