The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates
by:
Frans de Waal (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B007Q6XKEY
Publish date: March 18th 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition
Pages no: 313
Edition language: English
"Bonobo i ateista" Fransa de Waal, to książka w której autor przedstawia źródła pochodzenia moralności. Polemizuje z neoateistami m.in. Dawkinsem. To jednak nie tylko książka o ewolucji i prezentacji cech porównawczych naczelnych i naszego najbliższego człekokształtnego Bonobo. Wiele ciekawych opisó...
I'm an atheist geneticist with a long-standing interest in primates, and I dislike this book. I'm sorry to say that I've come to see it as simply disingenuous, and sorry because I otherwise agree with the general thrust being made. But I can't abide the author being "on my side", yet also being a ...
The book really should have been titled "The Bonobo and Human Empathy". The two pillars of all philosophy are empathy and reciprocity. He completely examines the first pillar, empathy, by illustrating empathetic behavior in Bonobos (and other animals) and linking it to our behavior.He's such a good ...