Sense Of Origins

Author : Christopher Boehm
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465029198

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Moral Origins by Christopher Boehm Pdf

From the age of Darwin to the present day, biologists have been grappling with the origins of our moral sense. Why, if the human instinct to survive and reproduce is "selfish," do people engage in self-sacrifice, and even develop ideas like virtue and shame to justify that altruism? Many theories have been put forth, some emphasizing the role of nepotism, others emphasizing the advantages of reciprocation or group selection effects. But evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm finds existing explanations lacking, and in Moral Origins, he offers an elegant new theory. Tracing the development of altruism and group social control over 6 million years, Boehm argues that our moral sense is a sophisticated defense mechanism that enables individuals to survive and thrive in groups. One of the biggest risks of group living is the possibility of being punished for our misdeeds by those around us. Bullies, thieves, free-riders, and especially psychopaths -- those who make it difficult for others to go about their lives -- are the most likely to suffer this fate. Getting by requires getting along, and this social type of selection, Boehm shows, singles out altruists for survival. This selection pressure has been unique in shaping human nature, and it bred the first stirrings of conscience in the human species. Ultimately, it led to the fully developed sense of virtue and shame that we know today.A groundbreaking exploration of the evolution of human generosity and cooperation, Moral Origins offers profound insight into humanity's moral past -- and how it might shape our moral future.

Author : SERRA KAPUSCINSKI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1438479182

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Sense of Origins by SERRA KAPUSCINSKI Pdf

Author : Mario Jacoby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317311195

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Shame and the Origins of Self-Esteem by Mario Jacoby Pdf

Shame is one of our most central feelings and a universal human characteristic. Why do we experience it? For what purpose? How can we cope with excessive feelings of shame? In this elegant exposition informed by many years of helping people to understand feelings of shame, leading Jungian analyst Mario Jacoby provided a comprehensive exploration of the many aspects of shame and showed how it occupies a central place in our emotional experience. Jacoby demonstrated that a lack of self-esteem is often at the root of excessive shame, and as well as providing practical examples of how therapy can help, he drew upon a wealth of historical and cultural scholarship to show how important shame is for us in both its individual and social aspects. This Classic Edition includes a new foreword by Marco Della Chiesa.

Author : Baruch M. Bokser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520317376

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The Origins of the Seder by Baruch M. Bokser Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Author : Tom Ricketts,Michael Potter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139825788

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The Cambridge Companion to Frege by Tom Ricketts,Michael Potter Pdf

Gottlob Frege (1848–1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of this attempt he not only founded modern logic but also had to address fundamental questions in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Frege is generally seen (along with Russell and Wittgenstein) as one of the fathers of the analytic method, which dominated philosophy in English-speaking countries for most of the twentieth century. His work is studied today not just for its historical importance but also because many of his ideas are still seen as relevant to current debates in the philosophies of logic, language, mathematics and the mind. The Cambridge Companion to Frege provides a route into this lively area of research.

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Color vision
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012203100

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The Colour-sense: Its Origin and Development by Grant Allen Pdf

Author : Tyler Burge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199581405

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Origins of Objectivity by Tyler Burge Pdf

Tyler Burge's study investigates the most primitive ways in which individuals represent the physical world. By reflecting on the science of perception and related psychological and biological sciences, Burge outlines the constitutive conditions for perceiving the physical world, thus locating the origins of representational mind.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401140584

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The Origins of Life by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Understanding life through its origins reveals the groundwork underlying the differentiations of its autonomous generative matrixes. Following the primogenital matrix of generation, the three generative matrixes of the specifically human sense of life establish humanness within the creative human condition as the existential sphere of sharing-in-life.

Author : R. B. Onians,Richard Broxton Onians
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521347947

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The Origins of European Thought by R. B. Onians,Richard Broxton Onians Pdf

A rich collection of ideas and explanations of cultures as diverse as the Greeks and the Norse, the Celts and the Jews, and the Chinese and the Romans.

Author : Jeremy Clarke,Paul Cundy,Jessica Yakeley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000052879

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The Social and Interpersonal Origins of Depression Today by Jeremy Clarke,Paul Cundy,Jessica Yakeley Pdf

Originally published as a special issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, this collection was timed to coincide with the publication of the new NICE guideline for the treatment of depression, which will shape the context of NHS talking therapy services for the next decade. In 2005, Professor Lord Layard demonstrated for the first time that mental health should matter to the UK Treasury. Layard showed that the cost of untreated depression was huge due to welfare spending on invalidity benefits, and that this was a social problem rising across the OECD, but more so in the UK. NICE had already published a clinical guideline recommending several talking therapies that were cost-effective. Why could no one still get them? In 2007, under New Labour, the world's first universal free-at-the-point-of-need service was launched to remedy this: IAPT Improving Access to Psychological Therapies. Thus began a race against depression, predicted by the World Health Organisation to become the leading cause of disability worldwide by 2020. But on the eve of NICE’s new guideline for depression, due in 2021, it is now clear that across large parts of the UK we are set to lose this race. Badly. Why? What went wrong? Clarke, Cundy and Yakeley have brought together a group of researchers and experts in this collection who address some of the fundamental flaws in the policy design for IAPT. By drawing attention to neglected social and interpersonal origins of depression, pointing us towards more effective approaches, and seeking to pinpoint some of the gaps in thinking during IAPT's first decade, this book offers alternative answers to what still remains Britain’s biggest social problem.

Author : Edmond de Pressensé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Ethics
ISBN : NYPL:33433070237205

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A Study of Origins by Edmond de Pressensé Pdf

Author : Mme. E. de Pressensé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059171100963335

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A Study of Origins; Or, the Problems of Knowledge, of Being, and of Duty by Mme. E. de Pressensé Pdf

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402007892

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The Creative Matrix of the Origins by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

Creative force or creative shaping? This unprecedented effort to plumb the workings of the ontopoiesis of life by disentangling its primordial forces and shaping devices as they enter into the originary matrixes of life yields fascinating insights. Prepared by the investigation of the first two matrixes (the `womb of life' and `sharing-in-life', Analecta Husserliana Volume 74) the present collection of essays focuses upon the third and crowning creative matrix, Imaginatio Creatrix here proves itself to be the source and driving force which brings us to the origins of the human mind - human life. Studies by: Elof Axel Carlson, A-T. Tymieniecka, N. Milkov, Eldon C. Wait, K. Rokstad, M. Golaszewska, M. Küle, W. Kim Rogers, Piotr Mróz, R. Pinilla Burgos, A. Carrillo Canán, G.R. Ronsivalle, J.E. Smith, A. Pawliszyn, A. Rizzacasa, L. Galzigna and M. Galzigna, Jiro Watanabe, M. Jakubczak, K. Tarnowski, M. Durst, W. Pawliszyn, R.A. Kurenkova, Carmen Cozma, E. Supinska-Polit, I.S. Fiut, Gerald Nyenhuis, Osvaldo Rossi, R.D. Sweeney, and D. Ulicka.

Author : David L. Marshall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226722351

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The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry by David L. Marshall Pdf

The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the Weimar origins of rhetorical inquiry. Marshall focuses his attention on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Aby Warburg, revealing how these influential thinkers inflected and transformed problems originally set out by Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Theodor Adorno, Hans Baron, and Leo Strauss. He contends that we miss major opportunities if we do not attend to the rhetorical aspects of their thought, and his aim, in the end, is to lay out an intellectual history that can become a zone of theoretical experimentation in para-democratic times. Redescribing the Weimar origins of political theory in terms of rhetorical inquiry, Marshall provides fresh readings of pivotal thinkers and argues that the vision of rhetorical inquiry that they open up allows for new ways of imagining political communities today.

Author : Andy Connolly
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498511810

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Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition by Andy Connolly Pdf

Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition offers a fresh reading of the later career development of one of America’s most celebrated authors. Through a contextual analysis of a select number of texts, this innovative study discusses how famed novels such as American Pastoral and The Plot against America demonstrate Philip Roth’s considerable interest in mapping, by means of his unique literary talent, the changing shape and fortunes of American liberalism since the 1930s. By viewing these novels and other seminal works of his later period through a wider historical lens, this book informs readers of the myriad ways in which Roth’s major phase of writing since the mid-1990s has shown considerableconcern with questions of class, ethnicity, race, gender, and literary culture, all of which have been key components in the shifting intellectual and political makeup of American liberal ideology from the New Deal to our present time. This bookgoes beyond a mere historical analysis by taking a new look at how Roth’s experimentations in narrative style and his appeal to ahistorical notions of literary tradition rest in complex alignment with his fictional treatment of aspects of American history. This novel work of criticism demonstrates a heightened awareness of Roth’s career-length fascination with the formal characteristics of fiction, making clear to its audience that any reductively linear reading of Roth as a political novelist should be avoided at all costs. Ultimately, Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition offers a stimulatingly intelligent approach to the art of one of America’s true literary titans, providing the focused reader with a nuanced understanding of how Roth’s fiction has been shaped by the various competing strains in his dual roles as a disinterested formalist aesthete, on the one hand, and as a politically engaged author on the other.