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Personal Growth & Self-Development
The ethics of Hercules
Robert Chenault Givler
184 pages~3 hr 40 min read43 chapters$4.99
Your muscles have morals: Givler's startling thesis grounds ethics in the body's own machinery. Drawing on mechanistic psychology, the all-or-none principle, and the physiology of choice, he rebuilds conduct from the nervous system up. A 1920s experiment in biological ethics wearing a mythic title. Hercules, meet the laboratory.
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43 chapters
- 1THE ETHICS OF HERCULES
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- 5FOOTNOTES:
- 6CHAPTER II
- 7The Rise of Mechanistic Psychology
- 8A Mechanistic Interpretation of the Meaning of Words
- 9How the “All-or-none” Principle Helps to Disclose an Amazing Secret
- 10The Physiological Explanation of the Opposition of Antonyms
- 11FOOTNOTES:
- 12CHAPTER III THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICATION OF THE WORD “GOOD”
- 13The Results of an Experiment to Determine Which of These Five Classes Are Implied by the Seventy-Nine Significations of the Word “Good”
- 14The Action-Patterns Implied by the Use of the Word “Good”
- 15FOOTNOTES:
- 16CHAPTER IV THE ACTION-PATTERNS IMPLIED BY THE WORD “BAD,” WITH A NOTE ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF “EVIL”
- 17The Physiology of “Evil”
- 18A Further Remark on the Opposites of “Good”
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