TY  - BOOK
AU  - Midgley,Mary
TI  - The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene
SN  - 9781317488248
AV  - B1647.M473 -- S65 2010eb 
U1  - 171.9 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Pseudo-Darwinism and social atomism -- 2. The background: egoism from Hobbes to R. D. Laing -- 3. The natural springs of morality -- 4. Coming to terms with reason -- 5. Darwin's new broom -- 6. The self's strange adventures -- Conclusion: the wider perspective -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. This title argues that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish gene' tendency in neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic
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