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The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene (Hardcover)
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The Solitary Self - Darwin and the Selfish Gene (Hardcover)
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Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral
constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to
self-interest. Midgley argues cogently and convincingly that
simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish
gene' tendency in recent neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating
but are always unrealistic. Such neatness, she shows, cannot be
imposed on human psychology. She returns to Darwin's original
writings to show how the reductive individualism which is now
presented as Darwinism does not derive from Darwin but from a
wider, Hobbesian tradition in Enlightenment thinking. She reveals
the selfish gene hypothesis as a cultural accretion that is just
not seen in nature. Heroic independence is not a realistic aim for
Homo sapiens. We are, as Darwin saw, earthly organisms, framed to
interact constantly with one another and with the complex
ecosystems of which we are a tiny part. For us, bonds are not just
restraints but also lifelines.
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