"By combining recent advances in the physical sciences with some of the novel ideas, techniques, and data of modern biology, this book attempts to achieve a new and different kind of evolutionary synthesis. I found it to be challenging, fascinating, infuriating, and provocative, but certainly not dull."--James H, Brown, University of New Mexico "This book is unquestionably mandatory reading not only for every living biologist but for generations of biologists to come."--Jack P. Hailman, Animal Behaviour , review of the first (...) edition "An important contribution to modern evolutionary thinking. It fortifies the place of Evolutionary Theory among the other well-established natural laws."--R.Gessink, TAXON. (shrink)

In 'A Note on “Scepticism and Absurdity”; ' (Inquiry, Vol. 10 [1967], No. 3), Zinkernagel has restated his attack on scepticism, maintaining that his approach, where we need only refer to a simple and inspectable fact of language, offers a decisive argument against scepticism. It is suggested that Zinkernagel's optimism is unwarranted because on close inspection his general theory reveals some serious complexities, and it is shown that in his own terms Zinkernagel's second rule is not a condition for description.

Currently, an emphasis is being placed on the integration of ethical issues into the business curriculum. This paper investigates the viability of using student group interaction to induce an upward movement in the stages of moral development as advanced by Kohlberg. The results of a classroom experiment using graduate business law students suggest that formulating groups that mix stages of moral development can provide a robust environment for upward movement. In addition, the results suggest strategies for formulating effective groups, based (...) upon entry levels as measured by the Defining Issues Test. (shrink)

Offers a comprehensive nonmathematical treatment regarding the design and analysis of experiments, focusing on basic concepts rather than calculation of technical details. Much of the discussion is in terms of examples drawn from numerous fields of applications. Subjects include the justification and practical difficulties of randomization, various factors occurring in factorial experiments, selecting the size of an experiments, different purposes for which observations may be made and much more.

Another welcome edition of this miniature classic, not to be confused with the earlier edition in the same series. In this version Beck uses his own revised translation, which he supplements with a number of helpful bracketed footnotes. A short passage from The Metaphysics of Morals is also included. --D. R.

This magnificent volume is the basic text for the study of Jung. Originally published in 1912 under the title, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, it marked Jung's first serious deviation from Freudian psychoanalysis and led to the complete break between the two men the following year. The chapter on "The Concept of Libido" gives Jung's reasons for generalizing this crucial notion from its specifically sexual meaning to that of psychic energy. The present translation is from the fourth German edition of (...) 1952. There are sixty-four full page plates accompanying the text. --D. R. (shrink)

The keystone of the system, this volume deals with the central mystery of Christianity, viz., the doctrine of Christ. The book is carefully, even beautifully written. To some, Tillich's existentializing will prove a stumbling block; to others it may make the heart of Christianity acceptable for the first time.--D. R.

Originally presented as an address at Princeton, this little pamphlet shows Maritain at his most congenial. Taking a position against relativism, he argues persuasively that zeal for truth is compatible with human "fellowship"--which word he prefers to "tolerance."--D. R.

A well-chosen series of extracts from the works of Bacon, Galileo, Hobbes, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, and Leibniz, together with introductory material and interpretative commentary, intended as an introduction to "the century of genius."--D. R.

Four lectures, delivered at Allahabad and Benares in 1953. They present a straightforward summary of the basic principles of Saiva-Siddhanta, with emphasis on its versions of the cosmological and moral arguments for the existence of God and on the highest function of God as the redeemer of Souls.--D. R.

Selections from the first two parvas, or books, of the classic epic of Hinduism. The translation is that of Pandit Kesare Maham Ganguli, made for the Pratapa Chunder Raya edition of 1883. A glossary of terms is included.--D. R.

A series of papers beautifully reprinted from various issues of the Eranos-Jahrbücher, including Walter Wili's "The Orphic Mysteries and the Greek Spirit," C. J. Jung's "Transformation Symbolism in the Mass," and Hugo Rahner's "The Christian Mystery and the Pagan Mysteries."--D. R.

An attractive edition of one of Augustine's philosophically most important writings. The print is unusually large. The translator also supplies an Introduction and Summary. --D. R.

A brief but rather helpful survey of contemporary thought from the standpoint of "internationalism." The author feels that the existentialists do not go far enough in their search for inwardness and that their approach needs to be supplemented by the more positive one of Vedanta.--D. R.

A sane, practical guide to the art of meditation by a Swiss trained in Buddhism. The preliminaries are patiently and clearly dealt with and it is p. 112 before the author indicates that "meditation can now begin." Despite the Buddhist background, no religious commitment is presupposed. The approach is psychologically sound, the treatment free from obscurantism, and the manner engaging.--D. R.

In part I the urge to self-and-other-defeat is analyzed in terms of clinical data, the concept of Satan, and the philosophy of Nietzsche. In part II all three of these aspects are set in the context of a penetrating psychological analysis of the mechanisms involved in the urge to mass destruction. Though the treatment is imaginative, the interpretation of Nietzsche is almost entirely unsympathetic. -- D. R.

This book brings together a series of papers presented at the 1953 meeting in Boston of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and published in various issues of The Scientific Monthly. The papers deal with the criteria for scientific theories, operationalism, psychoanalysis, organism and machine, and science as a social and historical phenomenon. The contributors are particularly well-chosen. -- D. R.

A welcome reprint of this neglected classic in a modernized version of William Smith's translation. The editor's introduction summarizes the argument and places the book in its context among Fichte's other works.--D. R.

Though the selections included in this book have all been previously available in English, this is the first presentation of Buber's thought to cover the whole range of his interests. It is an extremely well-chosen selection and has been approved by Buber himself. Will Herberg's Introduction relates the different aspects of Buber's thought to each other and presents a coherent picture of a leading religious figure of our age. --D. R.

This work, the Yale Terry Lectures for 1954, provides a condensed survey of historiography from the earliest times to the present day. Comments on individual authors are brief but deft. The author renews his polemic against Toynbee and other system-builders who impose imaginative constructions on history. A tone of genteel common sense and judicious balance pervades the work; this makes it, if unexciting, at least quite satisfying.--D. R.

A clear and reliable presentation of the basic concepts of Yoga, understood as a practical discipline for leading the good life at all levels of one's being. The terms are related to each other by means of numerous cross-references.--D. R.

D. R. Fisher; IV*—Why Should I Be Just?, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 77, Issue 1, 1 June 1977, Pages 43–62, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristote.

In this paper I contend that the 'superfluity' of triangles is only apparent; all those specified are indeed required for the smallest sub-units, so long as the symmetry of the final body to be constructed is taken into account at earlier stages.

Although modern texts of Propertius have generally inclined to conservatism, there remains a number of cases where editors have chosen, in Housman's phrase, timidly to alter what they might without rashness have defended; or where the arguments so far advanced in favour of the best attested reading leave room for supplement. Thus: I. 6. 25 f. me sine, quem semper uoluit fortuna iacere, hanc animam extremae reddere nequitiae. extrema … nequitia Fonteine.

Although modern texts of Propertius have generally inclined to conservatism, there remains a number of cases where editors have chosen, in Housman's phrase, timidly to alter what they might without rashness have defended; or where the arguments so far advanced in favour of the best attested reading leave room for supplement. Thus: I. 6. 25 f. me sine, quem semper uoluit fortuna iacere, hanc animam extremae reddere nequitiae. extrema … nequitia Fonteine.