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The New Human Science
- Source :
- Darwin's Roadmap to the Curriculum
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Abstract
- All prior attempts to understand human origins, behavior, and history have led to paradoxes and dilemmas, highly resistant to resolution. This chapter reviews specific cases of failures to resolve these apparent paradoxes and dilemmas in human evolution and the social sciences. The authors argue that these failures are rooted in confusing proximate with ultimate causation. They further argue that a sound theory of human origins, behavior, and history (social coercion theory) can help to understand the human condition scientifically; specifically, this theory argues that all the unique properties of humans emerge from the unprecedented human social evolution, driven, in turn by the evolution of cost-effective coercive management of conflicts of interest. Finally, the authors argue that social coercion theory yields the first general theory of history, economics, and politics, which provides an approach to problems within the social sciences while armed with a grasp of ultimate causation. Consequently, formerly intractable scientific questions and social concerns become manageable and solvable.
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Darwin's Roadmap to the Curriculum
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........26c224882b1e0dc594566611b5f4b4e3
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190624965.003.0007