The origin of humanness in the biology of love

The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: 'How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?' The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing a look into the fundaments of our biological constitution, concentrating on what they term emotioning, that is the flow of emotions in daily life that guides the flow of the systemic conservation of a manner of living. Maturana and Verden-Zöller claim that the fundamental emotion that gave rise to humans as sapient languaging beings was love, and that this remains our fundament even when other emotions become socially prevalent. The central concern of this book is us human beings. The authors' basic question is: 'How is it that we can live in mutual care, have ethical concerns, and at the same time deny all that through the rational justification of aggression?' The authors answer this basic question indirectly by providing a look into the fundaments of our biological constitution, concentrating on what they term emotioning, that is the flow of emotions in daily life that guides the flow of the systemic conservation of a manner of living. Maturana and Verden-Zoller claim that the fundamental emotion that gave rise to humans as sapient languaging beings was love, and that this remains our fundament even when other emotions become socially prevalent." Cover Front Matter Title Page Copyright Page Editor’s Foreword Poem Preface General Reflection Body Matter 1: Prologue 2: Fundaments 3: Human Origins 4: Our Present 5: Overview Back Matter Appendices 1: Scientific Explanations 2: Structural Determinism & Structural Intersections 3: Systemic versus Genetic Determination 4: Virtual Realities and the Nervous System 5: Virtual Realities and Human Existence 6: Systemic/Analogical versus Local/Causal Reasoning 7: Reality 8: Biology of Trust 9: Symbolization and Reality 10: Dimensions in Love References Also Available from Imprint Academic and Andrews UK