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On Genes, Gods and Tyrants - The Biological Causation of Morality (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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On Genes, Gods and Tyrants - The Biological Causation of Morality (Hardcover, 1987 ed.)
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Our future was with the collective, but our survival was with the
individual, and the paradox was killing us everyday. John Le Carre
Smiley's People (1979) Since the time of Ancient Greek lyrical
poetry, it has been one of man's dreams to explain his own conduct.
This is the background to all his activities, from literature to
speculative philosophy, including those odds and ends which, for
want of a better name and more precise boundaries are called "human
science." Over the past nine or ten years a new member has been
added to this inquisitive family, one which, moreover, claims to be
scientific to an extremely high degree: biology. This is in fact a
recurrent event, since theses designed to introduce causal
biological expla nations into the general field of human action had
already been formulated on at least two occasions (in original
Darwinism and the Neo-Darwinist synthesis). Ethologists and
sociobiologists are today taking over and as suring us that they
have the necessary tools to provide an answer to what perhaps
seemed the most slippery subject in the hands of science: the
social being. As might be expected, philosophers have reacted with
some scepticism. Though human conduct is undoubtedly subject to
determinants, the lion's share of responsi bility lies with society
itself. At the time when biology was beginning to develop the
theories necessary to overcome cre ationism, Karl Marx had already
managed to construct highly sophisticated interpretive models of
human social behaviour."
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