... they do may tell us something about human nature, metaphysics, and perhaps the future as well. apes brain aggression and fighting communication grooming behavior infants mirror and self recognition play behavior screams food submission threats dominance Machiavelli Niccolò politics power...

..., but of complex intelligence in general. This chapter examines the evolution of social intelligence in humans and rhesus macaques, the inequality of the sexes as well as male and female power, nepotism and despotism in rhesus and human societies, and human nature versus rhesus nature. brain evolution...

... basic human interest basic human motivation critical realism culture human nature ontology personalism social institutions social structures Social science must take human motivations seriously in order to understand and explain social life well. So another key question presents itself: among...

...This chapter focuses on a particular moment in the history of human sciences in which reflexivity played a significant role: the early days of revolution when cognitive science supplanted behaviorism as the hegemonic science of human nature. In the struggle that marked the cognitive revolution...

...When Hugh Hefner decided to financially back a filmic adaptation of Desmond Morris’s bestselling romp through human nature—The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal (1967)—he built on a well-rehearsed trope in the pages of Playboy magazine. Articles...

.... In the early modern period, Europeans made exacting distinctions in social rank, allowing only persons of the highest rank to wear fine ermines or scratch with a fingernail grown for the purpose at the king's chamber door, yet in this same period physicians assumed far-reaching unity across basic human nature...

... of multiple coexisting species of humans. On this view, the unity of human nature, tragically shattered by a now discredited racism, must be preserved at all costs—although the definition of humanness flits from criterion to criterion: upright posture, language, tool use. Each quiddity of the human becomes...

... broadly) to attribute the onslaught on the natural world to peculiarities or distinctions of “human nature.” The chapter argues that when human nature is evaluated as the culprit behind the ecological crisis, the discursive space for investigating the sociocultural conditioning into human supremacist...

...This chapter takes up the question of human nature from both a biological/behavioural perspective and the perspective or a shared innate knowledge which informs the human experience. It maintains that a biological/behavioural description of human nature is possible while rejecting the possibility...

... and invisibility. The chapter explains how Burden used light to contrast the spiritual with the dark side of human nature in the convergence of cultural and political affairs. Rather than producing art that is dependent upon sight for truth, Burden unites the conceptual illumination of lux...

... to intervene in “human nature.” With many recent technologies, they do not mediate human actions and decisions but rather merge with the human subject, resulting in a hybrid entity that has sometimes been called a “cyborg.” Illies Christian mediation Meijers Anthonie posthumanism transhumanism composite...

... oft-analyzed Theologico-Political Treatise, the Ethics has at its heart a nuanced analysis of his theory of human nature. Viewing this work in contrast to Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed, the book makes clear that Spinoza can no longer be thought...

... pride wickedness wicked psychology psychological Du Peyrou Pierre Alexandre Meier Heinrich Voltaire François Marie Arouet self consciousness Velkley Richard sentiment of existence property Cato M Porcius Jean-Jacques Rousseau Inequality Human Nature Paratext The Discourse...

... human nature Jordan Michael natural law Aquinas St Thomas Cicero liberalism natural morality Questions Concerning the Law of Nature Summa Theologica reason Seagrave S Adam self preservation Nicgorski Walter virtue Finnis John Fortin Ernest George Robert naturalistic fallacy Crosson...

... the emotional truth of a human nature equally shared by all. apathy anger and Augustine boredom ennui indifference Johnson Samuel melancholia morality depravity and Spacks Patricia Meyer “spleen ” Stoic apathy Cicero pain public anger in reason emotion and Seneca suffering according to Aristotle...

...Literary discourse was largely optimistic about science's ability to discover the truth about human nature. This chapter explores real-life experiments applying Rousseauian methods to childrearing and the disastrous results that ensued. The fault lines inherent in the texts of enlightened...

...As part of his study of human nature and the “science of man,” the great Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) wrote extensively on economics. A Philosopher’s Economist is the first systematic study in English of Hume’s economics and positions it in the broader context of his philosophical...

... the elements of human nature and provide a more adequate conception of the role of nurture in political life. This idea argues that modern-day authoritarian regimes bear no resemblance to the small, egalitarian, and mostly kin-based groups that characterized our evolving hominid ancestors...

...This chapter takes up the question of the relationship between Hobbes’s political philosophy and his natural philosophy, and it offers a detailed interpretation of his political philosophy. Through an examination of Hobbes’s account of human nature and the passions, his account of morality...