Human Nature and the Peace Problem
Author : Norman Angell
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1925
Category : War
ISBN :
War, Peace, and Human Nature
Author : Douglas P. Fry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2015-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190232463
Book Description
"The chapters in this book [posit] that humans clearly have the capacity to make war, but since war is absent in some cultures, it cannot be viewed as a human universal. And counter to frequent presumption, the actual archaeological record reveals the recent emergence of war. It does not typify the ancestral type of human society, the nomadic forager band, and contrary to widespread assumptions, there is little support for the idea that war is ancient or an evolved adaptation. Views of human nature as inherently warlike stem not from the facts but from cultural views embedded in Western thinking"--Amazon.com.
The Trouble with Human Nature
Author : Elizabeth D. Whitaker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315451727
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PART I Pathways to the present -- 1 Envisioning evolution: representations of humanness and causation -- 2 Origin stories: the co-evolution of human anatomy and sociality -- 3 Losses and gains: economic and health transitions since the Neolithic Revolution -- PART II Plasticity, identity, and health -- 4 Thicker than water: blood and milk in human evolution -- 5 Risk and responsibility: power and danger in individualized approaches to preventive health -- 6 Difference as destiny: race, sex, and culture -- PART III Sex and gender -- 7 Choosers and cheaters: the sexual/reproductive conflict hypothesis -- 8 Hoe and plow, pig and cow: work, family, and gender stratification -- 9 Tale of two-spirits: constructing gender and sexuality, aptitudes and inclinations -- PART IV Conflict and violence -- 10 Savage empathy: sources of competitiveness and cooperativeness, greed and generosity -- 11 Why stratify? Inequality and interpersonal violence -- 12 Peace and war: patterns and prevention of violent intergroup conflict -- Appendix: Life expectancy rate calculations -- Index.
Human Nature and the Peace Problem
Author : Norman Angell
Publisher : Gale, Making of Modern Law
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781289341565
Book Description
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law LibraryLP3Y004770019250101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926In order to present more fully each aspect of the economic and the moral and psychological arguments of the author's The fruits of victory, the publishers have produced this volume together with a companion one, Forein policy and our daily bread, the two including the whole of The fruits of victory as well as some additional matter. cf. Publisher's note.London; Glasgow; Sydney; Auckland: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [c1925]4 p. ., 7-171 p. 19 cmUnited KingdomAustraliaNew Zealand
War and Human Nature
Author : Stephen Peter Rosen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400826365
Book Description
Why did President John F. Kennedy choose a strategy of confrontation during the Cuban missile crisis even though his secretary of defense stated that the presence of missiles in Cuba made no difference? Why did large numbers of Iraqi troops surrender during the Gulf War even though they had been ordered to fight and were capable of doing so? Why did Hitler declare war on the United States knowing full well the power of that country? War and Human Nature argues that new findings about the way humans are shaped by their inherited biology may help provide answers to such questions. This seminal work by former Defense Department official Stephen Peter Rosen contends that human evolutionary history has affected the way we process the information we use to make decisions. The result is that human choices and calculations may be very different from those predicted by standard models of rational behavior. This notion is particularly true in the area of war and peace, Rosen contends. Human emotional arousal affects how people learn the lessons of history. For example, stress and distress influence people's views of the future, and testosterone levels play a role in human social conflict. This thought-provoking and timely work explores the mind that has emerged from the biological sciences over the last generation. In doing so, it helps shed new light on many persistent puzzles in the study of war.
Human nature and enduring peace
Author : Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Reconstruction (1939-1951)
ISBN :
Book Description
Human Nature and Enduring Peace (Classic Reprint)
Author : Society for the Psychological St Issues
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780483216303
Book Description
Excerpt from Human Nature and Enduring Peace The following set of principles governing the publication of its Yearbooks has been officially adopted by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 19,40 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0143122010
Book Description
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
The Future of Human Nature
Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 074569411X
Book Description
Recent developments in biotechnology and genetic research are raising complex ethical questions concerning the legitimate scope and limits of genetic intervention. As we begin to contemplate the possibility of intervening in the human genome to prevent diseases, we cannot help but feel that the human species might soon be able to take its biological evolution in its own hands. ‘Playing God’ is the metaphor commonly used for this self-transformation of the species, which, it seems, might soon be within our grasp. In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas – the most influential philosopher and social thinker in Germany today – takes up the question of genetic engineering and its ethical implications and subjects it to careful philosophical scrutiny. His analysis is guided by the view that genetic manipulation is bound up with the identity and self-understanding of the species. We cannot rule out the possibility that knowledge of one’s own hereditary factors may prove to be restrictive for the choice of an individual’s way of life and may undermine the symmetrical relations between free and equal human beings. In the concluding chapter – which was delivered as a lecture on receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for 2001 – Habermas broadens the discussion to examine the tension between science and religion in the modern world, a tension which exploded, with such tragic violence, on September 11th.
Body & Soul
Author : J. P. Moreland
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2009-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830874593
Book Description
While most people throughout history have believed that we are both physical and spiritual beings, the rise of science has called into question the existence of the soul. Many now argue that neurophysiology demonstrates the radical dependence, indeed, identity, between mind and brain. Advances in genetics and in mapping human DNA, some say, show there is no need for the hypothesis of body-soul dualism. Even many Christian intellectuals have come to view the soul as a false Greek concept that is outdated and unbiblical. Concurrent with the demise of dualism has been the rise of advanced medical technologies that have brought to the fore difficult issues at both edges of life. Central to questions about abortion, fetal research, reproductive techologies, cloning and euthanasia is our understanding of the nature of human personhood, the reality of life after death and the value of ethical or religious knowledge as compared to scientific knowledge. In this careful treatment, J. P. Moreland and Scott B. Rae argue that the rise of these problems alongside the demise of Christian dualism is no coincidence. They therefore employ a theological realism to meet these pressing issues, and to present a reasonable and biblical depiction of human nature as it impinges upon critical ethical concerns. This vigorous philosophical and ethical defense of human nature as body and soul, regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees, will be for all a touchstone for debate and discussion for years to come.
