The Ethical Primate

Humans, Freedom and Morality

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Mary Midgley

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In her new book, Mary Midgley argues that the unrealistic isolation of mind from body in reductive scientific ideologies still causes us painful confusion. Such ideologies present crude pictures which are not good science, since they ignore the manifest importance of the higher human faculties. Neither inside nor outside of these crude pictures is there room for any realistic notion of the self. Why should these theories insist on only one kind of answer? There is not just a single kind of legitimate explanation. There are as many kinds as there are viewpoints from which questions arise - subjective as well as objective, practical as well as theoretical. Human morality necessarily arises out of human freedom: we are uniquely free beings in that we are aware of our conflicts of motive, but those conflicts and our abilities to resolve them are part of our natural inheritance. Though our selves are in many ways divided, we share the difficult project of wholeness with other organisms. What matters for our freedom is the recognition of our genuine agency, our slight but real power to grasp and arbitrate our inner conflicts.

Author Biography:

Mary Midgley (1919-2018) was one of the most renowned moral philosophers of her generation and the author of many books, including Beast and Man, Wickedness and The Myths We Live By. She has taken part in many broadcast events, including The Moral Maze and Woman's Hour.

Release date NZ

March 7th, 1996

Author

Mary Midgley

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

204

Dimensions

129x198x15

ISBN-13

9780415132244

Product ID

1738595

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