Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Theory of Drive: The Dual Legacy of Leibniz's Theory of Appetition -- Chapter 3: Between Reimarus and Kant: Blumenbach's Concept of Trieb -- Chapter 4: Stoic dispositional innatism and Herder's concept of force -- Chapter 5: The economy of the Bildungstrieb in Goethe's comparative anatomy -- Chapter 6: "Wie die Triebe, so der Sinn; und wie der Sinn, so die Triebe": Jacobi on Reason as a Form of Life -- Chapter 7: Kant on Driving Forces: Parallels and Differences in Kant's Conceptualization of Trieb and Triebfeder -- Chapter 8: The drive to society in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment -- Chapter 9: Feeling and life in Kant's account of the beautiful and the sublime -- Chapter 10: Equine Driving: Plato, Kant and Fichte on the Teamwork of the Mind -- Chapter 11: "The drive to be an I is at the same time the drive to think and to feel." Hardenberg/Novalis on Drives, Faculties and Powers -- Chapter 12: Drive, Will, and Reason: Reinhold and Schiller on Realizing Freedom after Kant -- Chapter 13: Drives in Schelling: Drives as cognitive faculties -- Chapter 14: The Trieb of Dialectic—Systematic and Thematic Extension of the Concept of Trieb in Hegel -- Chapter 15: Trieb and Triebe in Schopenhauer's metaphysics of nature.

Throughout the Western world the decline of religion has left a moral vacuum in many people's lives. Many people are no longer certain of life's ultimate objectives. Dr R.B. Cattell offers a solution in his new book Beyondism (1987). (SJO)

Morality is often defined in opposition to the natural "instincts," or as a tool to keep those instincts in check. New findings in neuroscience, social psychology, animal behaviour, and anthropology have brought us back to the original Darwinian position that moral behaviour is continuous with the social behavior of animals, and most likely evolved to enhance the cooperativeness of society. In this view, morality is part of human nature rather than its opposite. This interdisciplinary volume debates the origin and working of human morality within the context of science as well as religion and philosophy. Experts from widely different backgrounds speculate how morality may have evolved, how it develops in the child, and what science can tell us about its working and origin. They also discuss how to deal with the age-old facts-versus-values debate, also known as the naturalistic fallacy. The implications of this exchange are enormous, as they may transform cherished views on if and why we are the only moral species