A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, AsidesDelbert D. Thiessen Transaction Publishers - 151 pàgines Many have seen the links between our minds and the universe, the common thread of our existence and the inevitability of our loves and hates. This book includes many demonstrations that our nature has been on the minds and lips of many - poets, play-wrights, philosophers, historians, novelists, kings, slaves, religious leaders, and the greatest of knaves. From Ralph Waldo Emerson to Arthur Schopenhauer, from Aldous Huxley to Arthur Conan Doyle, from Aristotle to William Shakespeare, the truths about ourselves have come tumbling out. In A Sociobiology Compendium, Del Thiessen mines the richness of biological investigations of human behavior comparing current views of human hehavior with expressions by non-scientists who have, in one way or another, touched the evolutionary strings of men and women. He begins each section with a brief account of biological notions of human behavior. The book shows in astonishing ways how the earlier thoughts of men and women from all cultures anticipate the biological observations about our being. A Sociobiology Compendium will be engaging reading for all psychologists, sociologists, and biologists. |
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... nature of our struggles - our lusts , our fears , our objectivity , our irrational- ity - lies embedded in our ... human behavior , comparing current views of human behavior with expressions by non - sci- entists who have , in one ...
... nature of our struggles - our lusts , our fears , our objectivity , our irrational- ity - lies embedded in our ... human behavior , comparing current views of human behavior with expressions by non - sci- entists who have , in one ...
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... Nature of Man 7 2. Romantic Love , Passion , and the Price of Reproduction 31 3. The Dark Side of Human Nature 4. The Duality of the Human Brain 58 57 69 5. The Historical Depth of Culture 81 6. Creativity and the Pain of Self ...
... Nature of Man 7 2. Romantic Love , Passion , and the Price of Reproduction 31 3. The Dark Side of Human Nature 4. The Duality of the Human Brain 58 57 69 5. The Historical Depth of Culture 81 6. Creativity and the Pain of Self ...
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... human nature lies everywhere , in the affirmations of the ancients , the sonnets of Shakespeare , the writings of Cervantes , the poetry of Tennyson , the novels of Hemingway , the music of Beethoven , the muse of Grimm's fairy tales ...
... human nature lies everywhere , in the affirmations of the ancients , the sonnets of Shakespeare , the writings of Cervantes , the poetry of Tennyson , the novels of Hemingway , the music of Beethoven , the muse of Grimm's fairy tales ...
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... nature is to sift out the truth from the fiction , the rose from the nettles . For every insight into human behavior , dozens of irrelevant and downright silly propositions are voiced . Aristotle not only spoke the truth about man , he ...
... nature is to sift out the truth from the fiction , the rose from the nettles . For every insight into human behavior , dozens of irrelevant and downright silly propositions are voiced . Aristotle not only spoke the truth about man , he ...
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... nature of uni- versals , whereas those of history are singulars . " Utterances obviously reflect the ... human mind . One criterion of truth emerges above all others , simply the " stab of truth , " that quality of feeling that ...
... nature of uni- versals , whereas those of history are singulars . " Utterances obviously reflect the ... human mind . One criterion of truth emerges above all others , simply the " stab of truth , " that quality of feeling that ...
Continguts
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The Nature of Man | 7 |
Romantic Love Passion and the Price of Reproduction | 31 |
The Dark Side of Human Nature | 57 |
The Duality of the Human Brain | 69 |
The Historical Depth of Culture | 81 |
Creativity and the Pain of SelfDiscovery | 95 |
Masters of Death | 107 |
Trying to Go Beyond the Genes | 119 |
The Depth of Our Knowledge | 137 |
References to Our Past | 141 |
Index | 147 |
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A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides Delbert D. Thiessen Previsualització no disponible - 1998 |
A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides Del Thiessen Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 104 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die ; — to sleep ; — No more ; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep...
Pàgina 34 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Pàgina 103 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 50 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites ! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others
Pàgina 91 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Pàgina 14 - It is universally acknowledged, that there is a great uniformity among the actions of men, in all nations and ages, and that human nature remains still the same, in its principles and operations. The same motives always produce the same actions: The same events follow from the same causes.
Pàgina 103 - There is but one truly serious philosophical problem. and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Pàgina 24 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Pàgina 63 - There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.
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The Evolution of Human Sociality: A Darwinian Conflict Perspective Stephen K. Sanderson Previsualització limitada - 2001 |