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Beyond Evolution - Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation (Hardcover, Reissue)
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Beyond Evolution - Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation (Hardcover, Reissue)
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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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