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The self beyond itself : an alternative history of ethics, the new brain sciences, and the myth of free will /
"A critique of 'free will' that draws on neuroscience, philosophy, and religion"--Provided by publisher
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New Press,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Searching for ethics: how do people become good (and bad)?
- Moral lessons of the Holocaust about good and evil, perpetrators and rescuers
- Overwhelming power of the group and the situation
- What happened to ethics: the Augustinian legacy of free will
- Another modernity: the moral naturalism of Maimonides and Spinoza
- Surveying the field: how the new brain sciences are exploring how and why we are (and are not) ethical
- Beginning again: the blessing and curse of neuroplasticity: interpretation (almost) all the way down
- Self in itself: what we can learn from the new brain sciences about self-protection, self-furthering and the 'I that is we'
- Self beyond itself: 'the we that is I' and the 'I that is we'
- What is ethics? how does moral agency work?