Human nature and the function of war in social evolution. A critical review of a recent form of the naturalistic fallacy

1990 ◽  
pp. 227-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Naturalistic Fallacy

Qualified objection to Ani’s qualified acceptance of Wiredu’s notion of consensus democracy in Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Cyril-Mary Pius Olatunji ◽  
Mojalefa L.J. Koenane
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Consensus Democracy ◽  
Critical Conversation ◽  
The Way

This essay offers a critical review of Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani’s article ‘On agreed action without agreed notions.’ Ani’s paper makes a critique of Kwasi Wiredu’s consensual democracy to the conclusion that though desirable, left the way it is, the model of consensus on which the idea of Wiredu’s non-party democracy was founded is itself admirable but defective and, therefore, calls for further enhancements. While not suggesting that Wiredu’s idea is perfect, this paper provides some objections to Ani’s view without necessarily aiming to make an apologetic defence of Wiredu. In the process, this paper, employing a critical conversation method, examines the most salient criticisms of Ani against Wiredu to the conclusion that Ani’s suggestion, by which he has opened up a new horizon in understanding human nature and assisting in making scholarly post-deliberation analysis, is impracticable. That is, it is still practically incapable of necessarily impacting any significant value to the process involved in attaining consensus itself. Keywords: Africa, Philosophy, Consensus, Democracy, Values

Nature, value, and normativity: An introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-114
Author(s):  
Gabriele De Anna ◽  
Mario De Caro
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Naturalistic Fallacy ◽  
Hard Time

This brief introduction expounds the reasons behind the collection of essays entitled ‘Nature, Value and Normativity’. Political and social philosophers have usually a hard time finding a role for considerations about nature (and human nature in particular) in their accounts of normativity, due to the risk of committing the naturalistic fallacy and/or running against people’s autonomy. Scepticism about appeals to nature in normative accounts of politics and society, however, seems bound to clash with the fact that nature constrains human action. The essays of the collection tackle some specific questions about the role of nature in accounts of value and normativity: the fact–value distinction, the relevance of emotions for normativity and values, the role of intersubjectivity in normative theory, as well as free will and action.

Human Nature: A Comparative Overview

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 59-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Høgh-Olesen
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Tool Use ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Social Transmission ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Derived Properties ◽  
Other Regarding ◽  
Other Regarding Preferences

AbstractThe differences and similarities between human and non-human animals are constantly up for discussion and an overview is needed. Four central fields of behaviour related to (1) complex symbolic activities, (2) tool making and tool use, (3) culture and social transmission and (4) sociality and morality, are surveyed and comparatively analysed to identify particular human characteristics. Data from a broad range of sciences are brought together to introduce light and shade into the picture. The differences found inside field four are especially striking. Humans are “ultra-social”. Evolution seems to have favoured a more collaborative kind of sociality in our species, and features like other-regarding preferences, large scale cooperation with non-kin, and strangers as well as third-party sanctions, appear to be derived properties of humans that have evolved after Homo and Pan diverged.

Semi-synthesis as a tool for broadening the health applications of bioactive olive secoiridoids: a critical review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Oliverio ◽  
Monica Nardi ◽  
Maria Luisa Di Gioia ◽  
Paola Costanzo ◽  
Sonia Bonacci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Natural Compounds ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Synthetic Analogues ◽  
Health Applications ◽  
Natural And Synthetic

Semi-synthesis is an effective strategy to obtain both natural and synthetic analogues of the olive secoiridoids, starting from easy accessible natural compounds.

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