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Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Free Press. New. 1997. Paperback. 0684833328 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED -- 313 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. Under edge has remainder mark, not at all affecting inerior -- REVIEWS: Publishers Weekly: "In this age of self-gratification and widespread lawlessness, Wilson ( Thinking About Crime ) takes the unfashionable view that a moral sense is part of our basic nature, albeit one that competes with our narrowly defined self-interest. In this lucid, elegant, magisterial and controversial essay, the eminent social scientist, a public policy professor at UCLA, punctures the tenets of neo-Darwinian biologists, cultural relativists, Freudians, behaviorists and anthropologists. Social bonds, he argues, are not entirely a matter of convention or a tool to ensure perpetuation of the species. Instead, our moral faculties--sympathy, fairness, self-control, etc. --grow directly out of our mutual interdependence as social animals. Wilson believes that the moral sense is formed as the child's innate disposition interacts with earliest familial experiences. Self-restraints on appetites are built into the "primitive" limbic brain, he stresses. Perhaps his most controversial thesis is that men and women differ in their moral orientation, with men more inclined to emphasize justice and emotional control, while women stress sympathy, caring and cooperation. First serial to Commentary, Crisis, and Public Interest." * Library Journal: "The author, a political scientist, argues that human beings all share a "moral sense" rooted in human biology and evolution. Using data from anthropology, sociology, biology, and psychology, he argues that this "sense" does not consist of universal rules of conduct but rather of shared tendencies toward sympathy, fairness, self-control, and duty. While Wilson shows that these tendencies can be shaped--or distorted--by cultural forces, they are strong enough to counter the postmodern tendency toward complete cultural relativism. The masterful synthesis of data from many disciplines (plus the fact that excerpts from this title are serialized in several leading current affairs journals like Commentary , Public Interest , and American Enterprise ) make this an essential title for any academic or public library serving an intellectural clientele." * * FS REVIEW: This text tells it all. After a lifetime writing and "teaching" about crime, JQW announced at the outset of this volume that if he knew how difficult it was to investigate morality and crime, he never would have begun to look into these questions. Socrates himself could not have put it better. -- with a bonus offer-- ., Free Press, 1997, 6<

1997, ISBN: 0684833328

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1997, ISBN: 0684833328

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