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The Origins of Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Matt Ridley
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-30 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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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 coo
The Origins of Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Matt Ridley
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-04-01 - Publisher: Penguin

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If, as Darwin suggests, evolution relentlessly encourages the survival of the fittest, why are humans compelled to live in cooperative, complex societies? In th
Moral Origins
Language: en
Pages: 434
Authors: Christopher Boehm
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-01 - Publisher: Soft Skull Press

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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.
Necessary Virtue
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Charles P. Hanson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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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 a
Virtues of the Mind
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-09-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model of virtue theory in ethics.