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  • Are You an Illusion?
    Mary Midgley
    A salutary analysis of science’s claim to have done away with the self and a characteristic injection of common sense from one of our most respected philosophers into a debate increasingly in need of it. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Stephen Cave. ...
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    30,21 €

  • Can’t We Make Moral Judgements?
    Mary Midgley
    How many times do we hear the statement ’It’s not for me to judge’? It conveys one of the most popular ideas of our time: that to make judgements of others is essentially wrong. In this classic text, the renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the ever popular stance in society that we should not make moral judgements on others. Guiding the reader through t...
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    31,78 €

  • The Myths We Live By
    Mary Midgley
    Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book that, far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. ...
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    35,11 €

  • The Solitary Self
    Mary Midgley
    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 sho...
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    77,71 €

  • Owl of Minerva
    Mary Midgley
    One of the UK’s foremost living moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships lost and found, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching. ...
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    54,39 €

  • Science and Poetry
    Mary Midgley
    In this typically crusading work, universally acclaimed as a classic on first publication, Midgley asserts her corrective view that without poetry (or literature, or music, or history, or even theology) we cannot hope to understand our humanity. ...
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    37,68 €

  • Heart and Mind
    Mary Midgley
    Midgley addresses herself to the problems of moral philosophy and psychology, examining the way we think of ourselves and how this affects our lives. ...
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    29,97 €

  • Beast and Man
    Mary Midgley
    In this major work, Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals argues that humans are rather more like animals than we have previously allowed ourselves to believe. ...
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    31,89 €

  • Evolution as a Religion
    Mary Midgley
    According to The Guardian, Midgley is ’the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who fee she sometimes oversteps the mark’.  This book examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role distorts it.  Her argument is flawlessly insightful: a punch, compelling, live...
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    28,68 €

  • Wickedness
    Dr Mary Midgley
    To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers. ...
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    29,91 €

  • Utopias, Dolphins and Computers
    Mary Midgley
    Why do the big philosophical questions so often strike us as far-fetched and little to do with everyday life? In Utopias, Dolphins and Computers Mary Midgley shows us that there is a need for philosophy in the real world. ...
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    77,68 €

  • The Ethical Primate
    Mary Midgley
    Mary Midgley argues that our evolutionary origin, properly understood, both explains why and how human freedom and morality have come about. ...
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    74,82 €

  • Can’t We Make Moral Judgements?
    Mary Midgley
    In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we can make moral judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes to the law and its institutions, but also to events that occur in our daily lives. ...
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    66,91 €

  • Wisdom, Information and Wonder
    Mary Midgley
    In this book one of Britain’s leading popular philosophers tackles a question that is at the root of our civilization: What is knowledge for? ...
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    77,31 €