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Biopolitics and international values : investigating liberal norms /
Biopolitics and International Values: Investigating Liberal Norms attempts to provide as profound an understanding of human behavior as possible. It sorts out the subjective meanings we share with other people that define our cultures and the symbolic contexts that surround us all. The book begins w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Pergamon Press,
�1981.
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| Colección: | Pergamon policy studies on international politics.
Pergamon biology and politics series. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Biopolitics and International Values: Investigating Liberal Norms; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. The Scientific Understanding of ""Modern"" Values; ORDER; THE ADVENT OF GLOBAL NORMS; THE AIM OF THIS STUDY; NOTES; Chapter 2. Fraternity: Are We Naturally Selfish or Not?; THE SEMANTICS OF FRATERNITY; FRATERNITY AND MODERN SOCIETY; INDIVIDUALISM AND COLLECTIVISM; HUMAN NATURE: SELFISH OR SOCIAL?; THE GENETICS OF ALTRUISM; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CULTURE; NOTES; Chapter 3. The Relative Irrelevance of Inequality: Intelligence, Race and Sex
- EQUALITY AND INDIVIDUALITYWHO ESPOUSES EQUALITY?; POLITICAL EQUALITY; LEGAL EQUALITY; EQUALITY AND FRATERNITY; THE SOCIAL RELEVANCE OF HUMAN INEQUALITIES; INEQUALITY OF TREATMENT; EQUALITY AND LIBERTY; INEQUALITY: THE VISUAL PREFERENCE FOR VERTICALITY; INTELLIGENCE; RACE; SEX; EQUALITY OF HUMAN WORTH; NOTES; Chapter 4. Freedom from Hunger and Freedom to Choose; LIBERTY DEFINED; NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE FREEDOM; NEGATIVE FREEDOM AND MALNUTRITION; POSITIVE FREEDOM AND THE BIOLOGY OF CHOICE; NOTES; Chapter 5. States of Happiness and States of Mind; HAPPINESS DEFINED; HAPPINESS AND HOW IT IS CAUSED
- HAPPINESS AS THE ULTIMATE VALUEBIOCHEMISTRY AND EMOTION; THE PHARMACOLOGY OF FAITH; THE PHYSIOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY COGNITION; COGNITION AND POLITICS; NOTES; Chapter 6. Science, Society (and Can They Survive); BIOPOLITICS; INTENTIONS AND CONSEQUENCES; FACT vs. VALUE AGAIN; THE SOCIAL DETERMINATION OF SCIENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; INDIVIDUALISM vs. COLLECTIVISM AGAIN; AN ETHICS OF CHANGE; NOTES; Conclusion; NOTES; INDEX; About the Author