Emotions and Morals

Darwin on Mind, Morals, and Emotions

From the beginning of his theorizing about species, Darwin had human beings in view. In the initial pages of his first transmutation notebook, he observed that “even mind & instinct become influenced” as the result of adaptation to new circumstances. Considering matters as a Lyellian geologist, he supposed that such adaptations would require many generations of young, pliable minds being expose...

Morals and Medicine

pared to normal synovial cells. This little book reviews these and other measurements in plasma, urine, synovial fluid, tissue extracts and synovial cell culture. The chapter on hormones is notable for its statement that prednisolone is the only drug which can halt the erosive progress of rheumatoid arthritis. This is certainly not the orthodox view of most rheumatologists, and its emphasis cas...

Law, Language and Morals

Meat, morals, and masculinity.

Much research has demonstrated that people perceive consumers of "good," low-fat foods as more moral, intelligent, and attractive, and perceive consumers of "bad," high-fat foods as less intelligent, less moral, and less attractive. Little research has contrasted perceptions of omnivores and vegetarians, particularly with respect to morality and gender characteristics. In two between-subject st...

Man, Morals and Society

Professor Flugel's untimely death has recently made us all sad : and the republication of this book (which first appeared in 1945) emphasises our loss anew. Although the subtitle is "a psychoanalytic study" it will appeal to the general reader, and indeed is a most skilful attempt to integrate the theories of the various psychoanalytic schools into a comprehensive?and, remarkably, comprehensibl...