The Importance of Evolution to Understandings of Human Nature / / Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 388
• VerfasserIn: Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 388.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (187 pages) :; illustrations.

This interdisciplinary book focuses on Charles Darwin’s extensively detailed observations of all forms of animate life across the global world—humans included. These existential realities of Nature are not commonly recognized in today’s world, yet they are all of sizable import in impacting both flora and fauna, thus in human understandings of the nature of the world and the nature of all forms of animate life. Darwin’s descriptively anchored observations furthermore tie in directly with Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological analyses of experience. However different their inquiries and wonder at the world and at human experience, their analyses show how descriptive foundations and a concern with origins are integral to both, and how methodology and a living dynamics are central to a recognition of the complementarity of biological-neurological sciences and phenomenology.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Evolutionary Realities of Animate Life -- i Darwin -- ii Insects -- iii Biodiversity -- iv Male-Male Competition -- v 21st-Century Archetypal Exemplifications of Male-Male Competition -- vi A Return to Darwin and His Principles of Natural Selection -- vii The Pan-Animate Nature of Emotions -- viii Vindications and Elaborations of Darwin’s Foundational Insights into Emotions -- ix Chapter 1 Summation -- 2 Phenomenological Realities of Animate Life -- i Naturalizing Phenomenology and a Proposed Neurophenomenology -- ii Darwin’s Evolutionary Biology and Enaction -- iii Pregiven and Pregivennesses: Sorting Basic Facts of Human Life from Biased Claims -- iv The Foundational Import of Pregivennesses -- v The Confluence of a Darwinian Perspective on Animate Life and Husserl’s Phenomenological Methodology -- vi Human Experience: the Nature and Challenges of Phenomenological Analyses -- vii Research Perspectives Complementary to Husserlian Phenomenology -- viii The Neurodynamics of Embodied Minds and Naturalizing Phenomenology vs Real-Life Subject-World Relationships -- 3 Joint Concerns and Complementarities Linking Darwinian Evolutionary Biology and Husserlian Phenomenology -- i On the Road to Recovery: Beginning Correlations -- ii The Centrality of Methodology and of Dynamics in Understandings of Human Nature -- 4 The Centrality and Critical Importance of Wonder and of an Ongoing Spiral of Inquiry in Understandings of Human Nature -- i Self-imposed Ideational Limitations in the Pursuit of Human Knowledge and the Open-Ended “Wonderful” Nature of Darwin’s Thinking and Writings -- ii The Complex Experiential Nature of Wonder: Its Value, Challenges, and Importance to the Nature of Human Knowledge -- iii Obstacle #1: the Ongoing Decade of the Brain -- iv Obstacle #2: the Age of Information -- v Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Subject Index.