| Description |
1 online resource (x, 360 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The Origin of Satan in Christian Traditions / Elaine Pagels 1 -- The End of the Ancient Other World: Death and Afterlife between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages / Peter Brown 19 -- Ideas of Power: China's Empire in the Eighteenth Century and Today / Jonathan D. Spence 87 -- The Lives of Animals / J.M. Coetzee 111 -- Exploring the Minded Brain / Antonio R. Damasio 167 -- The Direction of European History / Timothy Garton Ash 189 -- Culture and Society in Plato's Republic / M.F. Burnyeat 215 -- The Idol of Stability / Stephen Toulmin 325 -- Experience and Its Moral Modes: Culture, Human Conditions, and Disorder / Arthur Kleinman 355 -- The Tanner Lecturers 421 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Adaptation (Biology) -- Philosophy.
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Ecology -- Philosophy.
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Ethics.
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Euthenics -- Philosophy.
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Nature and nurture -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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Values.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peterson, Grethe B
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| ISBN |
0585305498 (electronic bk) |
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9780585305493 (electronic bk) |
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