Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels : : How Human Values Evolve / / Ian Morris; Stephen Macedo.
Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Mor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | Updated |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The University Center for Human Values Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 2 halftones. 28 line illus. 2 tables. 6 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Macedo, Stephen
- Chapter 1. Each Age Gets the Thought it Needs
- Chapter 2. Foragers
- Chapter 3. Farmers
- Chapter 4. Fossil Fuels
- Chapter 5. The Evolution of Values: Biology, Culture, and the Shape of Things to Come
- Comments
- Chapter 6. On the Ideology of Imagining That "Each Age Gets the Thought It Needs" / Seaford, Richard
- Chapter 7. But What Was It Really Like? The Limitations of Measuring Historical Values / Spence, Jonathan D.
- Chapter 8. Eternal Values, Evolving Values, and the Value of the Self / Korsgaard, Christine M.
- Chapter 9. When the Lights Go Out: Human Values after the Collapse of Civilization / Atwood, Margaret
- Response
- Chapter 10. My Correct Views on Everything / Morris, Ian
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
- Index