Mary Midgley
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
September 12, 1919
Died
October 10, 2018
Genre
Influences
Mary Midgley isn't a Goodreads Author
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but they
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The Myths We Live By
41 editions
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published
2003
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Beast and Man
4 editions
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1978
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Evolution as a Religion
26 editions
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1985
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Wickedness
18 editions
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1984
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What Is Philosophy for?
4 editions
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published
2018
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Science and Poetry
23 editions
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published
2000
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Animals and Why They Matter
7 editions
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1983
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Are You an Illusion?
10 editions
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published
2014
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Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning
20 editions
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1992
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The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene
14 editions
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2010
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“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”
― Animals and Why They Matter
― Animals and Why They Matter
“The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough.
"The End of Anthropocentrism?”
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"The End of Anthropocentrism?”
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“Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.”
― The Myths We Live By
― The Myths We Live By