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The ethics of Hercules

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The ethics of Hercules

Robert Chenault Givler

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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

  1. 1THE ETHICS OF HERCULES
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
  5. 5FOOTNOTES:
  6. 6CHAPTER II
  7. 7The Rise of Mechanistic Psychology
  8. 8A Mechanistic Interpretation of the Meaning of Words
  9. 9How the “All-or-none” Principle Helps to Disclose an Amazing Secret
  10. 10The Physiological Explanation of the Opposition of Antonyms
  11. 11FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12CHAPTER III THE BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICATION OF THE WORD “GOOD”
  13. 13The Results of an Experiment to Determine Which of These Five Classes Are Implied by the Seventy-Nine Significations of the Word “Good”
  14. 14The Action-Patterns Implied by the Use of the Word “Good”
  15. 15FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16CHAPTER IV THE ACTION-PATTERNS IMPLIED BY THE WORD “BAD,” WITH A NOTE ON THE PHYSIOLOGY OF “EVIL”
  17. 17The Physiology of “Evil”
  18. 18A Further Remark on the Opposites of “Good”

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