In Nurturing Evolution, Richard B. Carter cites several fields of knowledge in order more comprehensively to argue that a human being is specifically a political animal rather than a hostile naked ape which has partially given up its solitary interests to survive in competition with other hostile naked apes. Carter argues that humanness itself is in significant part a result of childhood nurture beginning at birth and that institutions of early nurture comprise "social wombs" i.e., true extensions of those evolutionary processes controlling fetal development within the mother's womb. Carter further argues that the political creations designed to protect and nourish those "social wombs" are in effect also adjuncts of human evolution. Nurturing Evolution ends by elaborating on the great dissimilarity between morally responsible human adults produced within politically nurtured families and the naked apes envisaged by other schools of political theory.

Nurturing Evolution: The Family as a Social Womb

Politics & Social Sciences

Carter, Richard B.

Social Sciences

Univ Pr of Amer

In Nurturing Evolution, Richard B. Carter cites several fields of knowledge in order more comprehensively to argue that a human being is specifically a political animal rather than a hostile naked ape which has partially given up its solitary interests to survive in competition with other hostile naked apes. Carter argues that humanness itself is in significant part a result of childhood nurture beginning at birth and that institutions of early nurture comprise 'social wombs' i.e., true extensions of those evolutionary processes controlling fetal development within the mother's womb. Carter further argues that the political creations designed to protect and nourish those 'social wombs' are in effect also adjuncts of human evolution. Nurturing Evolution ends by elaborating on the great dissimilarity between morally responsible human adults produced within politically nurtured families and the naked apes envisaged by other schools of political theory.

Nurturing Evolution

Philosophy

University Press of America

Clearing new ground: The life of John G. Townsend, Jr (Delaware governors series)

Delaware Heritage Press

Book by Prest, Judith, Krieger, Alan, Carter, Richard B.

Sailing On Spirit Wind: Midlife Reflections

Prest, Judith

Krieger, Alan

Spirit Wind Books

God,” Zazen,” Void,” Koan”: We may think we understand these words. But what exactly do they mean in the world of Zen Buddhism? Westerners can have difficulty grasping the language in the way the original Zen writers intended. This lyrical inquiry examines the complexity of these terms, expanding your mind and opening it to the possibilities of Zen. 
The first section provides brief explanations; the second part goes into greater depth, with some words repeated and others new. Why can we recognize the words dharma” and karma” and not Mahayana, the Greater Vehicle? In what way is the Buddha like a jumping frog? 
Unlike entries in a dictionary, this lively conversation will animate your thoughts and stir your sleeping consciousness.

The Language of Zen: Heart Speaking to Heart

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Sterling Ethos

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