What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Published on 30. November 2022
178 pages
978-1-5289-3935-5 (ISBN)
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In the absence of divine direction, how do we decide for ourselves the behaviours that would best serve our own interests, and those of other creatures, and of the planet as a whole? What might we turn to and draw upon to help us in making our own rules and in establishing our own moral principles?
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Bryan Gould
What Does It Mean To Be Human?
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11/2022
Austin Macauley Publishers
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Foreword
- Introduction
- What We Know Now but Didn't Before
- Are We God's Chosen People?
- Do We Have a Soul?
- Advances in Knowledge
- Evolution
- We Are on Our Own
- We Need to Get It Right Before It Is Too Late
- The Risks We Run
- The Treatment of Women
- Sin and Sex
- The Concept of Sin
- Man's Inhumanity to Man
- Individual Salvation?
- Proponents of Inequality
- Restraining the Law of the Jungle
- What Is Morality?
- The Social Dimension
- How Do We Create a Moral Code?
- The Nature of Our Inquiry
- The Purposes of a Moral Code
- Other Attempts to Regulate Behaviour
- What Can We Draw On?
- Is Reason Enough?
- Choosing Our Goals
- Our Rationality
- Social Justice
- Why and How Would a Moral Code Secure Compliance?
- The Role of Evolution in Influencing Our Behaviour
- The Content of a Moral Code
- Our Shared Cultural Heritage
- Our Emotions and Instincts - The Ability to Imagine
- Instinctive Feelings
- Our Natural Love for Others
- Our Acknowledgment of Our Shared "Human-Ness"
- Our Experience of Working Together
- Awareness, Proclamation, Endorsement and Compliance
- The "Free Market" As Moral Arbiter
- The Constituent Elements of a Moral Code
- Kindness
- Morality and Politics
