The Solitary Self

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ISBN: 9781844652532 | 184465253X
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Copyright: 8/8/2014

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The first title to launch a new series of books, Heretics. Mary Midgley is the doyenne of British moral philosophers. The book is a formidable critique of the use of Darwin's ideas in modern-day accounts of human motivation, most notably in the work of evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins.

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Introduction	p. 1
Pseudo-Darwinism and social atomism	p. 15
The background: egoism from Hobbes to R. D. Laing	p. 35
The natural springs of morality	p. 55
Coming to terms with reason	p. 73
Darwin's new broom	p. 97
The self's strange adventures	p. 117
Conclusion: the wider perspective	p. 139
Bibliography	p. 145
Index	p. 149
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