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  1. On Humanism

    By Richard Norman

    Series: Thinking in Action

    humanism /'hju:meniz(e)m/ n. an outlook or system of thought concerned with human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Albert Einstein, Isaac Asimov, E.M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, and Gloria Steinem all declared themselves humanists. What is humanism and why does it matter? Is there any...

    Published June 15th 2004 by Routledge

  2. Mill on Civilization and Barbarism

    By Michael Levin

    John Stuart Mill's best-known work is On Liberty (1859). In it he declared that Western society was in danger of coming to a standstill. To understand how Mill came to this conclusion requires one to investigate his notion of the stages from barbarism to civilisation, and also his belief in...

    Published June 9th 2004 by Routledge

  3. The Philosopher's Dog

    By Raimond Gaita

    In this lyrical and beautifully written book, Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. The Philosopher's Dog is above all a book about our creatureliness and its place in the...

    Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge

  4. Heart and Mind

    The Varieties of Moral Experience, 3rd Edition

    By Mary Midgley, Mary Midgley

    Series: Routledge Classics

    With a new introduction by the author. It is a book of superb spirit and style, more entertaining than a work of philosophy has any right to be.’ – Times Literary Supplement. Throughout our lives we are making moral choices. Some decisions simply direct our everyday comings and goings; others...

    Published February 5th 2003 by Routledge

  5. Humor

    By Simon Critchley

    Series: Routledge filosofie

    Humor is een fascinerend, prachtig geschreven en komisch boek over wat homor ons kan vertellen over onze menselijke natuur.Van de oudheid tot aan de moderne tijd en puttend uit het werk van een breed scala aan auteurs, in het bijzonder Swift, Sterne, Shaftesbury, Bergson, Beckett en Freud, keert...

    Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge

  6. In Search of Human Nature

    By Mary E. Clark

    Human Nature offers a wide-ranging and holistic view of human nature from all perspectives: scientific, historical, and sociological. Mary Clark takes the most recent data from a dozen or more fields, and works it together with clarifying anecdotes and thought-provoking images to challenge...

    Published October 16th 2002 by Routledge

  7. Human Nature After Darwin

    A Philosophical Introduction

    By Janet Radcliffe Richards

    Human Nature After Darwin is an original investigation of the implications of Darwinism for our understanding of ourselves and our situation. It casts new light on current Darwinian controversies, also providing an introduction to philosophical reasoning and a range of philosophical problems.Janet...

    Published November 15th 2000 by Routledge

  8. Beast and Man

    The Roots of Human Nature, 2nd Edition

    By Mary Midgley

    `Beast and Man is a brilliant and persuasive attempt to set us in our animal context, ... and to indicate a morality for a society without religious absolutes - a morality of which we see the rudiments in our brother species.' - The Observer...

    Published April 19th 1995 by Routledge