A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love's Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and helped…
A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love's Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and helped…
This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.
A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? 'Love's Enlightenment' examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and help…
Lo spirito del dono: saggi
by Caillé, Alain, Godbout, Jacques
fromStoria, filosofia e scienze sociali
For three decades, genetic altruism has been cited as the dominant theory to explain the paradox of human generosity ; experts claim our altruism is limited to close kin. But Moral Origins tells a different story.
For three decades, genetic altruism has been cited as the dominant theory to explain the paradox of human generosity ; experts claim our altruism is limited to close kin. But Moral Origins tells a different story.
The natural and cultural history of the evolution of our sense of ethics, by a leading anthropologist of human morality.
A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution.
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest" and invites us all to think and act more altruistically. The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroa…
In a book certain to change our thinking and our actions, science writer Stefan Klein argues that selfishness is self-defeating and proves the evolutionary advantages of altruism "The future belongs to the altruists, ' Stefan Klein proclaims in this wide-ranging and often surpri…
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of "survival of the fittest" and invites us all to think and act more altruistically. The phrase "survival of the fittest" conjures an image of the most cutthroa…
Empire of humanity: a history of humanitarianism
'Empire of Humanity' explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the 19th century to its current prominence in global life.
Empire of Humanity explores humanitarianism's remarkable growth from its humble origins in the early nineteenth century to its current prominence in global life. In contrast to most contemporary accounts of humanitarianism that concentrate on the last two decades, Michael Barnet…