Nature of politics (Record no. 39984)

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International Standard Book Number 300041691
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Classification number 306.2 MAS
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Personal name Masters, Roger D.
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Title Nature of politics
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Haven
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Yale University Press
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1989
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Extent 298 p.
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Summary, etc. This important and original book examines the nature of politics from a perspective cutting across conventional academic dis ciplines. Returning to the traditional emphasis on human nature as the founda tion of politics, Roger D. Masters links major issues in Western political philosophy with contemporary research in the life sci ences. By relating evolutionary biology, social psychology, linguistics, and game theory to politics, Masters proposes a framework for the emerging field of biopolitics.<br/><br/>Masters shows how selfishness and altru ism, participation in social groups, lan guages and cultures, and politics can all be illuminated by empirical evidence from the life sciences. To explore the nature of the human individual, for example, he presents experimental evidence indicating that the psychology of Plato is more exact than the traditions of Hobbes, Locke, and modern behaviorism. Cultural evolution is viewed as a process based on the emergence of human language as a system of information coding and transmission similar to the genetic system but not reducible to genetic determinism. Analyzing the origin of the centralized state, Masters relates contem porary theories of natural selection to the study of social cooperation in political phi losophy, game theory, and history.<br/><br/>This ambitious work, the fruit of more than twenty years of theoretical and experimen tal research, seeks to overcome the gap between the natural and social sciences. In addition, it offers a reasonable basis for judging political institutions and ethical standards. Challenging the nihilism and rel ativism that have predominated in the West over the last century, Masters indicates why an evolutionary approach to human nature provides reasons for preferring a constitu tional regime to autocratic or tyrannical governments. By viewing politics in terms. of the kinds of social participation typical within our species for millions of years, this "new naturalism" can help us to formulate decent and humane standards of social life while providing a scientific foundation for the study of political behavior.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Politics and government
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