Download or read book A New Concept of Liberty from an Evolutionary Psychologist written by Theodore Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Concept of Liberty written by Theodore Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Concept of Liberty from an Evolutionary Psychologist Theodore Schroeder written by Theodore Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Edition limited to 200 copies ... 50 on W. & A. all rag paper. "A partial bibliography": p. 151-[153].
Download or read book The Psychology of Liberty written by Wes Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Liberty is a visionary journey explaining a novel political system of freedom and justice named Self-Governing Capitalism. Objectivity and logic are utilized to discover truth both psychologically and politically. The book paints an inspiring picture of a world in which objective values of individuals are held supreme. The Psychology of Liberty is essentially a psychologically-based analysis of a completely free market economics, arising from an individual rights-based politics. It portrays the type of society that humanity will eventually embrace--hopefully in our lifetime--if we are to live benevolently, peacefully, and happily. By formulating a noncontradictory integration of the disciplines of philosophy and psychology, the book (unlike most philosophical books) is comprehensible. To anyone interested in profound ideas and who is searching for answers to life’s questions, comprehensibility is a very welcome friend. The book first explains who our species once was, has been, and now is, in evolutionary and biological terms, and then expounds on the philosophical and psychological implications of this--for individuals and society. Being based on logical and objective principles, much of human nature described reflects the ingenious ideas of the late novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand. Additionally, many of the psychological interpretations are in agreement with those of psychologist and psychotherapist Nathaniel Branden. Self-concept and self-esteem are the core issues of Branden’s work. (He was also a teacher of Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s philosophy.) The book incorporates and unifies these views of philosophy and psychology to appropriately explain the nature of reality and ourselves. As noted in the preface, this book is the result of studying the works of both authors. However, it outlines a politics that is somewhat different than what Objectivism has traditionally proposed, rectifying a basic contradiction by applying logic fully to this fourth branch of philosophy. This application proves important because it has many societal and psychological ramifications. The Psychology of Liberty espouses Self-Governing Capitalism, which is the only completely free market system. Self-Governing Capitalism is identical in political description to Anarcho-Capitalism (or what is called in certain circles a “polycentric constitutional order” or “polycentric legal order”). Yet for reasons mentioned in the book, Self-Governing is a more accurate and effective term to represent this type of political, economic, and social system. The book has eight chapters with various sections in each. The first four chapters lay the foundation for the last four, hence making it somewhat of a two-part book. The first part of the book (chapters 1-4) describes who our species has been from biological, evolutionary, historical, psychological, and philosophical perspectives. This necessarily entails describing distinguishing characteristics of our species (e.g., reason, volition, emotions) coupled with inspecting personal and societal conditions that have endured for centuries--namely, collectivistic thinking, irrationality, emotional unawareness and repression, and authoritarian rule over others. The dominant themes of individual psychological processes and the social influences on these processes are addressed and clarified. We see what causes individuals to surrender independent thought and judgment to others, and what influences them to disrespect themselves and not understand their mental world. All this is blended with the introduction and explanation of the properties, function, and use of logical reasoning (the process of noncontradictory identification), so as to facilitate discovery of the fundamental truths about ourselves and our political situation. Logic is explained as the method by which we find both personal and societal enlightenment. Once we
Download or read book Theodore Schroeder written by Joseph Ishill and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theodore Schroeder An Evolutionary Psychologist An Extract from A New Concept of Liberty Including Three Unpublished Letters Etc Reprinted from the Pamphlet Published by the Next Century Press Coscob 1944 written by Joseph Ishill and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theodore Schroeder written by Joseph Ishill and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Principles of Ethics written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Righteous Mind written by Jonathan Haidt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed social psychologist challenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike—a “landmark contribution to humanity’s understanding of itself” (The New York Times Book Review). Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns. In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you’re ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.
Download or read book Our Political Nature written by Avi Tuschman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By blending serious research with relevant contemporary examples, Our Political Nature casts important light onto the ideological clashes that so dangerously divide and imperil our world today. It shows how political orientations arise from three clusters of measurable personality traits that entail opposing attitudes toward tribalism, inequality, and differing perceptions of human nature. Together, these traits are by far the most powerful cause of left-right voting, even leading people to regularly vote against their economic interests. Our political personalities also influence our likely choice of a mate, and shape society's larger reproductive patterns. This book tells the evolutionary stories of these crucial personality traits, which stem from epic biological conflicts. Based on dozens of exciting new insights from primatology, genetics, neuroscience, and anthropology, this groundbreaking work brings core concepts to life through current news stories and personalities.
Download or read book Journal of Evolutionary Psychology written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adapting Minds written by David J. Buller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was human nature designed by natural selection in the Pleistocene epoch? The dominant view in evolutionary psychology holds that it was—that our psychological adaptations were designed tens of thousands of years ago to solve problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. In this provocative and lively book, David Buller examines in detail the major claims of evolutionary psychology—the paradigm popularized by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate and by David Buss in The Evolution of Desire—and rejects them all. This does not mean that we cannot apply evolutionary theory to human psychology, says Buller, but that the conventional wisdom in evolutionary psychology is misguided. Evolutionary psychology employs a kind of reverse engineering to explain the evolved design of the mind, figuring out the adaptive problems our ancestors faced and then inferring the psychological adaptations that evolved to solve them. In the carefully argued central chapters of Adapting Minds, Buller scrutinizes several of evolutionary psychology's most highly publicized "discoveries," including "discriminative parental solicitude" (the idea that stepparents abuse their stepchildren at a higher rate than genetic parents abuse their biological children). Drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including his own large-scale study of child abuse, he shows that none is actually supported by the evidence. Buller argues that our minds are not adapted to the Pleistocene, but, like the immune system, are continually adapting, over both evolutionary time and individual lifetimes. We must move beyond the reigning orthodoxy of evolutionary psychology to reach an accurate understanding of how human psychology is influenced by evolution. When we do, Buller claims, we will abandon not only the quest for human nature but the very idea of human nature itself.
Download or read book The Psychology of Radical Social Change written by Brady Wagoner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a social psychological approach to revolutions through analyzes of cases from around the world and during different historical periods.
Download or read book Censorship written by Derek Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 2950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Purity in Print written by Paul S. Boyer and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Why Everyone Else Is a Hypocrite written by Robert Kurzban and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolutionary psychology behind human inconsistency We're all hypocrites. Why? Hypocrisy is the natural state of the human mind. Robert Kurzban shows us that the key to understanding our behavioral inconsistencies lies in understanding the mind's design. The human mind consists of many specialized units designed by the process of evolution by natural selection. While these modules sometimes work together seamlessly, they don't always, resulting in impossibly contradictory beliefs, vacillations between patience and impulsiveness, violations of our supposed moral principles, and overinflated views of ourselves. This modular, evolutionary psychological view of the mind undermines deeply held intuitions about ourselves, as well as a range of scientific theories that require a "self" with consistent beliefs and preferences. Modularity suggests that there is no "I." Instead, each of us is a contentious "we"--a collection of discrete but interacting systems whose constant conflicts shape our interactions with one another and our experience of the world. In clear language, full of wit and rich in examples, Kurzban explains the roots and implications of our inconsistent minds, and why it is perfectly natural to believe that everyone else is a hypocrite.
Download or read book Evolutionary Social Psychology written by Jeffry A. Simpson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What a pity it would have been if biologists had refused to accept Darwin's theory of natural selection, which has been essential in helping biologists understand a wide range of phenomena in many animal species. These days, to study any animal species while refusing to consider the evolved adaptive significance of their behavior would be considered pure folly--unless, of course, the species is homo sapiens. Graduate students training to study this particular primate species may never take a single course in evolutionary theory, although they may take two undergraduate and up to four graduate courses in statistics. These methodologically sophisticated students then embark on a career studying human aggression, cooperation, mating behavior, family relationships, or altruism with little or no understanding of the general evolutionary forces and principles that shaped the behaviors they are investigating. This book hopes to redress that wrong. It is one of the first to apply evolutionary theories to mainstream problems in personality and social psychology that are relevant to a wide range of important social phenomena, many of which have been shaped and molded by natural selection during the course of human evolution. These phenomena include selective biases that people have concerning how and why a variety of activities occur. For example: * information exchanged during social encounters is initially perceived and interpreted; * people are romantically attracted to some potential mates but not others; * people often guard, protect, and work hard at maintaining their closest relationships; * people form shifting and highly complicated coalitions with kin and close friends; and * people terminate close, long-standing relationships. Evolutionary Social Psychology begins to disentangle the complex, interwoven patterns of interaction that define our social lives and relationships.
