How History Made the Mind: The Cultural Origins of Objective Thinking
- ISBN-10
- 0812695364
- ISBN-13
- 9780812695366
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing
- Author
- David Martel Johnson
Description
This book argues that ?reason,” or ?objective thinking,” is not a natural product of an enlarged brain or of innate biological tendencies, but a way of learning that contradicts the natural characteristics of being an animal, a mammal, and a primate. Author David Martel Johnson shows how the concept of objective thinking was incubated in Homeric Greece and eventually canonized as truth. Challenging and thoughtful, this book eloquently questions conventional wisdom in the contemporary study of the mind and includes an extended examination of the work of Julian Jaynes.
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