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Solitary Self Midgley Mary Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. Such neatness, she…
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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. Such neatness, she shows, cannot be imposed on human psychology. 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.
She reveals the selfish gene hypothesis as a cultural accretion that is just not seen in nature. 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. 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
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