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The problem of war : Darwinism, Christianity, and their battle to understand human conflict / Michael Ruse.
LIBRA HM631 .R87 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruse, Michael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Social Darwinism.
- War--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- War.
- War--Psychological aspects.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 261 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Darwinism and war: science or religion? argues that the different perspectives of Christians and Darwinians on the nature and causes of warfare reveal them to be playing the same game, offering not so much scientific or empirical explanations but rival value-laden analyses, suggesting we have less a science-religion conflict and more one between two rival religious visions - Christianity and a form of secular Darwinian humanism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Darwinian evolutionary theory
- Darwinism as religion
- Two visions of war
- Darwinism after Darwin
- Onward Christian soldiers
- The biology of war
- Realists and pacifists
- From Hitler to Unesco
- The bomb and Vietnam
- Darwinian theory comes of age
- Rival paradigms
- Moving forward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190867577
- 0190867574
- OCLC:
- 1043172556
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