... and lows of human nature, and subsequently the realization of supremacist culture. Kant Immanuel —Elektra —Salome Weininger Otto supremacism Weber Max Hofmannsthal Hugo von Linton E Lynn Nietzsche Friedrich Tylor Edward B Abbate Carolyn Kristeva Julia Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Klimt Gustav...

...This chapter discusses the argument that the engagement with new biological knowledge unsettles some of the most critical assumptions about cultural malleability and difference in human nature. It introduces the concept of genomics, which certifies a distinct diversity and gives the possibility...

...This chapter examines the relation between Theodoret of Cyrrhus' performances of patronage and his teachings about Christ. It explains that Theodoret presented Christ as a mediator between God and humanity and he spoke of salvation as the perfection of human nature. It suggests that while his...

... but the terms and investigative activity making possible such differentiated scholarship did not exist. Human nature remained an essentially irreducible category in terms of which observed phenomena were to be explained. The business of human science was to describe its qualities. Some works attempted...

...By requiring an abandonment of religiosity and spirituality, the Secularization Experiment attempted nothing less than reshaping the private realm of a whole nation. The failure of Marxist-Leninists to comprehend core elements of human nature and human requisites led to an enormous and devastating...

... and Aldous Huxley would both conclude that twentieth century technology and population trends were likely to transform our environment and ourselves. Their insights would destabilize traditional notions of both nature and human nature and anticipate the concept of the Anthropocene . Berra Yogi...

...-century thinkers sought to cap this achievement with a science of human nature. Belief in the existence of laws governing human will and emotion; social change; and politics, economics, and medicine suffused the writings of such disparate figures as Hume, Kant, and Adam Smith, and formed the basis...

...This chapter centers on Western ethical discourse, which assumes the existence of a unified human nature that is neurologically connected and historically unchanging. It introduces the term human conditions, which describes the inherent malleability of lived experience as it shapes...

... was attributed to the physis, or human nature. The Greeks saw that illnesses can heal by themselves. The most terrible cancers sometimes unexpectedly take a turn for the better, without any recognizable external cause. In Greece and beyond, in contrast to China, this observation led...

...This chapter focuses on social theories concerning the social construction of nature and human nature. It highlights the ways that very different visions of nature can also help generate dangerous attitudes and practices regarding nonhuman nature. It discusses the construals of nature and evaluates...

...This chapter examines ideas about nature and human nature in two Native American cultures, the Koyukon of Alaska and the Navajo of the southwestern United States. It identifies some of the common themes that surface in these two traditions and explains that native cultures also emphasize...

...This chapter explores the role of anthropological claims in ethics with a look at the ways the natural sciences might contribute to alternative narratives about human nature and relations with the nonhuman world. It discusses the implications of evolutionary theory for human nature and humans...

...This chapter explores some important ethical and meta-ethical questions raised by the differences and relationships in human nature. It highlights the value of a narrative-based ethic, including its valuation of embodiment, relationality and utopian horizons as a framework for making sense and use...

... impact overlaps carrying capacity, either for a given location or for the whole planet. The way in which we understand and respond to the zone depends on basic assumptions about natural resources and human nature, and it is at the core of defining and solving the food crisis. This is illustrated using...

...This chapter analyzes the three main emphases used in defining sustainable agriculture—economic, environmental, and social. These are compared in terms of natural resources, human nature, internalization of externalities, and risk management, emphasizing differences in value-based and empirically...

... several decades have also seen an explosion in eighteenth-century studies and new techniques of inquiry which have insisted that we should not take the scientific rhetoric at face value. Barthez P J New Elements of Science of Man Burke E Condorcet M J A N marquis de Fox C Human nature Karnes Lord H...

... that it turned into a desire for a systematic science, even “a science of women.” Both women and men contributed to this. The science of woman addressed women's nature in ways comparable with the literature on human nature in general, revealing the same ambiguity about “nature,” the same normative structure...

...This book examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. The book proposes an “ethical anthropology” that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures...