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Towards a Redefinition of the Human in Humanism
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- Title: Towards a Redefinition of the Human in Humanism
- Author(s): William Kitchin
- Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
- Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
- Series: New Directions in the Humanities
- Journal Title: The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review
- Keywords: Active Negative Personality, Biology, Biopolitics, Brain, Brain Sciences, Cognition, Concorde Effect, D4DR, Dopamine, Genetics, Histocompatibility Complex, Humanism, Mhc, Moral Judgments, Novelty Seeking, Personality, Rational-Analytic, Cognition, Rationa
- Volume: 2
- Issue: 1
- Date: January 06, 2006
- ISSN: 1447-9508 (Print)
- ISSN: 1447-9559 (Online)
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v02i01/43223
- Citation: Kitchin, William. 2006. "Towards a Redefinition of the Human in Humanism." The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review 2 (1): 0-0. doi:10.18848/1447-9508/CGP/v02i01/43223.
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Abstract
The humanist presumption that humans’ default cognitive mode is rational-analytic is undermined by numerous findings in the biological and brain sciences.
