On Purpose /

On Purpose / / Michael Ruse.

A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with purpose, and even Darwin's theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea, was u...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Ruse, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • CHAPTER 1. ATHENS
  • CHAPTER 2. JERUSALEM
  • CHAPTER 3. MACHINES
  • CHAPTER 4. EVOLUTION
  • CHAPTER 5. CHARLES DARWIN
  • CHAPTER 6. DARWINISM
  • CHAPTER 7. PLATO REDIVIVUS
  • CHAPTER 8. ARISTOTLE REDIVIVUS
  • CHAPTER 9. HUMAN EVOLUTION
  • CHAPTER 10. MIND
  • CHAPTER 11. RELIGION
  • CHAPTER 12. THE END
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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