Darwinian natural right : the biological ethics of human nature /

Title:

Darwinian natural right : the biological ethics of human nature /

Author:

Arnhart, Larry, 1949-

Published:

Albany, NY : c1998.

Format:

Book

Institution:

Emerson College

Contents:

Artistotle, Darwin, and natural right -- Desire and reason -- Political animals. The Hobbesian critique -- The nature of culture -- The human nature of morality and freedom -- Parent and child. Plato's second wave -- Religious communism in the Oneida community -- Secular communism in the kibbutz -- The human ecology of parental investment -- Infanticide, adoption, and sexual bonding -- Man and woman. Feminist naturalism -- The bioloyg of sex differences -- Mating desires -- Male dominance and male vulnerability -- Feminist culturalism -- Master and slave. Ant slavery and human slavery -- Aristotle -- Hume -- Jefferson -- Darwin -- Lincoln -- Racial science -- The poverty of psychopathic desire. An evolutionary niche for Machiavellians -- The ends and kinds of life -- Nature and nature's god. McShae, Masters and Wilson -- Aristotle and Augustine -- Hume and Darwin -- Moses and Aquinas.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

Emerson Main Stacks
BJ1311 .A66 1998 – Available

• Available Temporarily at Emerson Reserve
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