She simply refuses to take on board that this is superstition. Midgley kept going while others slumbered, and stayed in the north-east after retiring from Newcastle University. She wrote her final book What is Philosophy For? Become a Friend of Aeon to save articles and enjoy other exclusive benefits, Aeon email newsletters are issued by the not-for-profit, registered charity Aeon Media Group Ltd (Australian Business Number 80 612 076 614). She would call his work ‘biological Thatcherism’. In her most recent book (2010) Midgley argues that the reduction of human motivation to pure self-interest, which she calls a reductive individualism, comes not from Darwin and his evolutionary theory, but other enlightenment thinking which portrays human beings as heroically independent and driven by self-directed individualism. Selfish is an odd word because its meaning is almost entirely negative. The atomised worldview is a fantasy, she argued, which fuels the destruction of human potential and the natural world: “People are different to Lego,” as she put it. To send this article to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Your email address will not be published. Meticulously crafted with impressive sound design to match, the resulting film forms an arc that perhaps mirrors the character of humanity itself – brimming with contradictions, and cascading ever forward. After graduating in 1942, Mary Scrutton joined the Civil Service and did her bit for the war effort by working at the Ministry of Production. Mary Midgley had little inclination for Platonic debates about pure logic or ultimate reality, and little time for the self-referential obsessions of modern philosophers about whether it is possible to make moral judgments at all. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Midgley, M (2008) ‘Cold wars and grand conclusions: The conflicts that matter aren’t between different parties in the world but within each one of us, as Darwin knew’, in The Guardian, Available at: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2008/oct/28/religion-darwin-dawkins-midgley (Accessed: 10 September 2010). Midgley thought the same was true of worldviews: everyone sees from somewhere, and no mountain top gives you the whole picture. She went on to expand these ideas in Science As Salvation (1992) and Evolution as a Religion (1985), examining how science had come to function as a substitute for religion, and demonstrating how badly it, and scientists, had done the job. Mary had a conventional upbringing in a large vicarage in Greenford, now a suburb of west London, and was educated at Downe House, where she lost her Christian faith but acquired an interest in philosophy after reading Plato. I’ve just shared this with The Newcastle Philosophy Society’s Facebook page. Darwin would never have dogmatised hastily about matters that are mysterious and complex to us. She also thought about being pregnant, breastfeeding, and raising young children – “so literally and unmistakably both animals and human beings”. Photo by Michael S Williamson/Washington Post/Getty, Physiognomies of Russian criminals from The Delinquent Woman (1893) by Cesare Lombroso. Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this to your organisation's collection. The email address/es you provide will be transferred to our external marketing automation service ‘MailChimp’ for processing in accordance with their. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply. This helps explain, she said, why European philosophy was so abstract and detached from human life. Courtesy the Wellcome Collection, Photo by Cristina Garcia Rodero/Magnum Photos, In a remote town near Area 51, UFO believers and locals contemplate the beyond, From identity politics to medicine, the DNA revolution demands a new bioethics, The Renaissance art illusion that proved everything is a matter of perspective, In between chemotherapy, 10-year-old Pien finds kinship with the honeybees she keeps, Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past, How do you message an alien? Dawkins goes on to argue that it is possible for a human being to turn against his instinct. Thank you. Philosophy’s job, she said, was to put these different views together into a coherent picture. Dawkins, R (1989) The Selfish Gene, Oxford: OUP.
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