Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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Author: Gray, John

In his radical work of philosophy John Gray sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human.   Būklė - labai gera Philosophies such as liberalism and Marxism enthrone humankind as a species whose destiny is to transcend natural limits and conquer the Earth. 'Powerful and brilliant. Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions. Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions' J. John Gray argues that this belief in human difference is a dangerous illusion and explores how the world and human life look once humanism has been finally abandoned. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world.

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