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Beyond Evolution : Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation

Beyond Evolution : Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation

Beyond Evolution : Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation
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Beyond Evolution : Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation Hardback - 1997

by O'Hear, Anthony

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  • Title Beyond Evolution : Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation
  • Author O'Hear, Anthony
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 230
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarendon Press, Oxford
  • Publication date 1997-11-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0198242549-11-1-29
  • ISBN 9780198242543 / 0198242549
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.51 x 6.43 x 0.75 in (24.16 x 16.33 x 1.91 cm)
  • Reading level 1550
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophical anthropology, Evolution
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97229482
  • Dewey Decimal Code 128
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

In this controversial new book O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behavior in terms of evolution. He contends that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human world. Because of our reflectiveness and our rationality we take on goals and ideals which cannot be justified in terms of survival-promotion or reproductive advantage. O'Hear examines the nature of human self-consciousness, and argues that evolutionary theory cannot give a satisfactory account of such distinctive facets of human life as the quest for knowledge, moral sense, and the appreciation of beauty; in these we transcend our biological origins. It is our rationality that allows each of us to go beyond not only our biological but also our cultural inheritance: as the author says in the Preface, "we are prisoners neither of our genes nor of the ideas we encounter as we each make our personal and individual way through life."

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Citations

  • Books & Culture, 08/01/2000, Page 31

About the author

Anthony O'Hear is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford, and Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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