Download or read book The Ethical Primate written by Mary Midgley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ethical Primate, Mary Midgley, 'one of the sharpest critical pens in the West' according to the Times Literary Supplement, addresses the fundamental question of human freedom. Scientists and philosophers have found it difficult to understand how each human-being can be a living part of the natural world and still be free. Midgley explores their responses to this seeming paradox and argues that our evolutionary origin explains both why and how human freedom and morality have come about.