The essential Mary Midgley

Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: The Roots of Human Nature; (From Beast and Man); 1. Have We A Nature?; 2. Animals And The Problem Of Evil; 3. Speech And Other Excellences (From Wickedness); 4. The Problem Of Natural Evil; 5. The Elusiveness Of Responsibility; 6. Selves And Shadows (From Animals and Why They Matter); 7. Emotion, Emotiveness and Sentimentality; 8. Equality and Outer Darkness (From Utopias, Dolphins; and Computers); 9. Is a Dolphin a Person?; Part 2: Philosophizing Out in the World (From Utopias, Dolphins; and Computers); 1. Philosophical Plumbing (From Wisdom, Information and Wonder); 2. Wisdom And Contemplation; 3. The Withdrawal Of Moral Philosophy; 4. Escaping from Solitude (From Heart and Mind); 5. The Human Heart and Other Organs; 6. On Trying Out One´s New Sword on a Chance Wayfarer; Part 3: The Myths of Science (From Science as Salvation); 1. Salvation And The Academics (From Evolution as a Religion); 2. Evolutionary Dramas; 3. The Irresistible Escalator; 4. The Service of Self and the Service of Kali (From The Myths we Live By); 5. Biotechnology and the Yuk Factor (From Science as Salvation); 6. The Remarkable Masculine Birth Of Time; Part 4: Reason and Imagination (From Science and Poetry); 1. The Sources Of Thought; 2. Atomistic Visions: The Quest For Permanence; 3. Putting Our Selves Together Again 4. A Plague On Both Their Houses; Part 5: Gaian Thinking: Putting it All Together (From Science and Poetry) 1. Individualism and the concept of Gaia; 2. Why There Is Such A Thing As Society; 3. Gods and goddesses: the role of wonder (From Beast and Man); 4. The Unity Of Life Bibliography; Notes; Index.