State And Nature
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| Author | : Gregg Mitman |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1992-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780226532370 |
Although science may claim to be "objective," scientists cannot avoid the influence of their own values on their research. In The State of Nature, Gregg Mitman examines the relationship between issues in early twentieth-century American society and the sciences of evolution and ecology to reveal how explicit social and political concerns influenced the scientific agenda of biologists at the University of Chicago and throughout the United States during the first half of this century. Reacting against the view of nature "red in tooth and claw," ecologists and behavioral biologists such as Warder Clyde Allee, Alfred Emerson, and their colleagues developed research programs they hoped would validate and promote an image of human society as essentially cooperative rather than competitive. Mitman argues that Allee's religious training and pacifist convictions shaped his pioneering studies of animal communities in a way that could be generalized to denounce the view that war is in our genes.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2021-12-13 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9004499628 |
Combining intellectual history with current concerns, this volume brings together fourteen essays on the past, present and possible future applications of the legal fiction known as the state of nature.
| Author | : Thomas Hobbes |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 418 |
| Release | : 2012-10-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 048612214X |
Written during a moment in English history when the political and social structures were in flux and open to interpretation, Leviathan played an essential role in the development of the modern world.
| Author | : Wilko Hardenberg |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2017-07-14 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351764640 |
Following the industrial revolution and post- war exponential increase in human population and consumption, conservation in myriad forms has been one particularly visible way in which the government and its agencies have tried to control, manage or produce nature for reasons other than raw exploitation. Using an interdisciplinary approach and including case studies from across the globe, this edited collection brings together geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians in order to examine the degree to which socio- political regimes facilitate and shape the emergence and development of nature states.
| Author | : Thomas Hühne |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2013-02-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783656372370 |
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: 1,3, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the basis of the theories of Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau - the state of nature, which is used by all three of them as a methodical entity to create their social contract theories . I will first introduce each philosopher and the political context he lived in as well as the different states of nature on which the philosophers based their theories on. I will then compare the states with each other and point out relations and dissimilarities. In my conclusion I will come back to the hypothesis that the three different states have dissimilar intentions and aim towards different governmental systems.
| Author | : S. A. Lloyd |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2019-01-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108246524 |
The essays in this volume provide a state-of-the-art overview of the central elements of Hobbes's political philosophy and the ways in which they can be interpreted. The volume's contributors offer their own interpretations of Hobbes's philosophical method, his materialism, his psychological theory and moral theory, and his views on benevolence, law and civil liberties, religion, and women. Hobbes's ideas of authorization and representation, his use of the 'state of nature', and his reply to the unjust 'Foole' are also critically analyzed. The essays will help readers to orient themselves in the complex scholarly literature while also offering groundbreaking arguments and innovative interpretations. The volume as a whole will facilitate new insights into Hobbes's political theory, enabling readers to consider key elements of his thought from multiple perspectives and to select and combine them to form their own interpretations of his political philosophy.
| Author | : Peter Adamson |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2021-04-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3110731037 |
A much-maligned feature of ancient and medieval political thought is its tendency to appeal to nature to establish norms for human communities. From Aristotle's claim that humans are "political animals" to Aquinas' invocation of "natural law," it may seem that pre-modern philosophers were all too ready to assume that whatever is natural is good, and that just political arrangements must somehow be natural. The papers in this collection show that this assumption is, at best, too crude. From very early, for instance in the ancient sophists' contrast between nomos and physis, there was recognition that political arrangements may be precisely artificial, not natural, and it may be questioned whether even such supposed naturalists as Aristotle in fact adopt the quick inference from "natural" to "good." The papers in this volume trace the complex interrelations between nature and such concepts as law, legitimacy, and justice, covering a wide historical range stretching from Plato and the Sophists to Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, Cicero, the Neoplatonists Plotinus and Porphyry, ancient Christian thinkers, and philosophers of both the Islamic and Christian Middle Ages.
| Author | : Laurence D. Cooper |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2021-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0271029889 |
The rise of modern science created a crisis for Western moral and political philosophy, which had theretofore relied either on Christian theology or Aristotelian natural teleology as guarantors of an objective standard for &"the good life.&" This book examines Rousseau's effort to show how and why, despite this challenge from science (which he himself intensified by equating our subhuman origins with our natural state), nature can remain a standard for human behavior. While recognizing an original goodness in human being in the state of nature, Rousseau knew this to be too low a standard and promoted the idea of &"the natural man living in the state of society,&" notably in Emile. Laurence Cooper shows how, for Rousseau, conscience&—understood as the &"love of order&"&—functions as the agent whereby simple savage sentiment is sublimated into a more refined &"civilized naturalness&" to which all people can aspire.
| Author | : Woodrow Wilson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 840 |
| Release | : 1889 |
| Genre | : Political science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : JEAN-JACQUES. ROUSSEAU |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2025 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781398840331 |
