MARY MIDGLEY

Cutting through myths of scientific omnipotence, Mary Midgley explores how this inheritance has so powerfully shaped the way we are, and the problems it has brought with it. She argues that poetry and the arts can help reconcile these problems, and counteract generations of "one-eyed specialists," unable and unwilling to look beyond their own sc...

To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. In Wickedness she sets out to delineate not so much the nature of wickedness as its actual sources. Midgley's analysis proves that the capacity for real wickedness is an inevitable part of human nature. This...

In The Ethical Primate, renowned philosopher Mary Midgley tackles important questions about human freedom and morality. Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human being can be both a living part of the natural world and, at the same time, a genuinely free agent. Midgley explores their responses to this seemi...

¿Por qué las grandes preguntas de la filosofía nos suelen parecer tan ajenas a la vida cotidiana? Mary Midgley nos demuestra que no tiene por qué ser así. Su popularidad como una de las filósofas fundamentales de nuestro tiempo se basa en su estilo rotundo, incisivo y directo y en su capacidad para hablarnos de las cosas que nos atañen de verdad.