The Ethical Primate: Humans, Freedom, and Morality
Routledge (1994)
| Abstract | In The Ethical Primate, renowned philosopher Mary Midgley tackles important questions about human freedom and morality. Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human being can be both a living part of the natural world and, at the same time, a genuinely free agent. Midgley explores their responses to this seeming paradox and argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, explains why human freedom and morality have come about. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Free will and determinism Human beings Human evolution Moral and ethical aspects Ethics | |||||||||
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| Call number | BJ1468.5.M53 1996 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 041513224X 9780415132244 | |||||||||
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