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Conscience.
Many consider conscience to be one of the most important-if not the fundamental-quality that makes us human, distinguishing us from animals, on one hand, and machines on the other. But what is conscience, exactly? Is it a product of our biological roots, as Darwin thought, or is it a purely social i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Reaktion Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Conscience: A Biography; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; I. At the Beginning; Early Stirrings; From Homer to Aristotle; Enter the Stoics; II. The Christian Centuries; From Paul to Augustine; Conscience in the Age of Faith; Luther and After; III. From Machiavelli to Nietzsche; The Great Divide; The Death of God; Storming the Heavens; IV. Life Without God; From Liberation to Dressage; Alternatives to Conscience: Japan; Alternatives to Conscience: China; V. Conscience in the Third Reich; Those Who Commanded; Those Who Killed; Those Who Resisted; VI. Idols Old and New
- Learning to Say NoConscience and Health; Conscience and the Environment; VII. The Man-machine; From Atomism to Behaviourism; The Rise of the Robots; The Electrical-chemical Machine; Conclusion: At Journey's End; References; Acknowledgements; Index