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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.*Edition: Reprint.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Routledge.* Binding and cover condition: Soft card covers, No bumps or rubs. Very slight creases to spine and hinge. NEAR FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. Pen Annotations to some 20 pages and inside front cover. Otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 207pp. text. xxiii pp. Notes & Index.*Product Description:- A much needed and clear investigation of why and how science has so powerfully shaped the way we understand ourselves, our behaviour towards others and our place in the world. With her customary sharp insight and clear prose, renowned moral philosopher Mary Midgely criticises our 17th century inheritance of breaking the world up into small parts and observing them in isolation. This may work in science, but she points out how this kind of approach can be disastrous when turned towards understanding ourselves, our interaction with the…
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Another consideration, no less important, concerns our relation to the non-human world on which we depend Since the Renaissance, most sages in our humanistic tradition, both on the right and the left, have neglected questions about the relation.
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- Title Science and Poetry
- Author Mary Midgley
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge, Independence, Kentucky, U.S.A.
- Date May 2002
- ISBN 9780415276320 / 0415276322
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 7.12 x 5.74 x 0.72 in (18.08 x 14.58 x 1.83 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 501
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