The Origins Of Virtue

Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140244042
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Virtue written by Matt Ridley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Ridley explores such perplexing conundrums as why, if humans are such egoistical beings, don't they behave as rational fools and forego the benefits of cooperation. He uses the findings of new research to look afresh at "Mankind".

Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141927054
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Virtue written by Matt Ridley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.

Author : Christopher Boehm
Publisher : Soft Skull Press
ISBN 13 : 0465020488
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Origins written by Christopher Boehm and published by Soft Skull Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution. By the author of Hierarchy of the Forest.

Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140264450
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Virtue written by Matt Ridley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societies? In this fascinating examination of the roots of human trust and virtue, a zoologist and former American editor of the Economist reveals the results of recent studies that suggest that self-interest and mutual aid are not at all incompatible. In fact, he points out, our cooperative instincts may have evolved as part of mankind's natural selfish behavior—by exchanging favors we can benefit ourselves as well as others.Brilliantly orchestrating the newest findings of geneticists, psychologists, and anthropologists, The Origins of Virtue re-examines the everyday assumptions upon which we base our actions towards others, whether in our roles as parents, siblings, or trade partners. With the wit and brilliance of The Red Queen, his acclaimed study of human and animal sexuality, Matt Ridley shows us how breakthroughs in computer programming, microbiology, and economics have given us a new perspective on how and why we relate to each other.

Author : Charles P. Hanson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813917948
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necessary Virtue written by Charles P. Hanson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the Constitution's separation of church and state to the need for French assistance in the fight against the British during the Revolutionary War, the author examines the significant break with the traditional, virulent anti- Catholicism of colonial New England Protestants. While some saw the break as a necessary result of shedding the colonial past, the author argues that many saw it as a temporary expedient to be dispensed with as soon as possible. The alliances with France and French Canadians, he says, had the effect of redrawing religious boundaries and disabusing some Americans of their habitual intolerance. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Terry Lee Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0585223580
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enviro-Capitalists written by Terry Lee Anderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that Americans should turn to private entrepreneurs rather than the federal government to guarantee the protection and improvement of environmental quality, the authors document numerous examples of how entrepreneurs have satisfied the growing demand for environmental quality. Beginning with historical cases from the turn of the century, they illuminate the benefits of entrepreneurial participation in wildlife preservation, aquatic habitat production, and environmentally friendly housing development. As government budgets shrink and more people question the efficacy of government regulations, Enviro-Capitalists offers alternatives to traditional thinking about the environment. While the book does not claim that the private sector can provide solutions to all environmental problems, it offers innovative ideas that will cultivate and encourage environmental entrepreneurship.

Author : Stephen Mark Gardiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489686
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtue Ethics, Old and New written by Stephen Mark Gardiner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are grounds for saying that contemporary work in virtue ethics is, if not quite in its theoretical infancy, at least not far out of diapers. And this suggests that we should be gentle and nurturing, allowing it time to flourish before coming to any definitive verdict on its merits.... However, it is hard to deny that modern-day virtue ethics is part of a long, sophisticated and fairly continuous tradition. Not only does the approach have origins almost as ancient as philosophy itself, but its history also includes extensive work by such philosophical luminaries as (at least) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Aquinas, and (perhaps) Hume and Nietzsche. And this suggests that we should already be in a good position to assess its appeal."--from the Introduction In Virtue Ethics, Old and New, ten philosophers seek to enrich the contemporary understanding and development of virtue ethics through a detailed examination of some key contributions from its past. Their essays demonstrate the continuing relevance of the history of moral philosophy to contemporary debates.

Author : Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521578264
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtues of the Mind written by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.

Author : Devin Henry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107010365
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Gap between Aristotle's Science and Ethics written by Devin Henry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the extent to which Aristotle's ethical treatises employ the concepts, methods, and practices developed in his 'scientific' works.

Author : Professor Shifra Armon
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472441915
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain written by Professor Shifra Armon and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. This book culls genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose fiction, to restore the inception of courtiership at the Spanish Hapsburg court to the history of masculinity. Refuting the current conception that Spain’s political decline precipitated a ‘crisis of masculinity’, Masculine Virtue maps changes in figurations of normative masculine conduct from 1500 to 1700. As Spain assumed the role of Europe’s first modern centralized empire, codes of masculine conduct changed to meet the demands of global rule. Viewed chronologically, Shifra Armon shows Spanish conduct literature to reveal three axes of transformation. The ideal subject (gendered male in both practice and law) became progressively more adaptable to changing circumstances, more intensely involved in currying his own public image, and more desirous of achieving renown. By bringing recent advances in gender theory to bear on normative rather than non-normative masculinities of early modern Spain, Armon is able to foreground the emergence of energizing new models of masculine virtue that continue to resonate today.