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The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love
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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.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was reading and enjoying Andres Weber, and a friend recommended I check out this book for a less western take on biosemiotics. Ironically, Weber was a student of Maturana.There are a number of unusual things about this book. It seems to be a very small printing. Apparently it was written in the early '90s, but not published until the lat '00s. Almost half of the book is appendices (which you should probably read). It is written using what some call semantic language. Its text requires that you image what the authors are speaking about, or else you will quickly become lost. In other words, it is a very challenging read! I think I'll need to have a handful of conversations with others that have read the book before I have a strong grasp of the topics within.The book was written by two Chilean professions. Gerda Verden-Zöller has studied mother-child relations. Humberto Maturana Romesin has studied sense-perception and developed the concept of autopoesis (the self-making nature of life). Apparently Maturana died during the time I was reading this book.The book outlines an alternate theory of evolution, on in which ecosystems and their species are part of an ongoing give-and-take that results in their mutual development. Humans, as part of this system, have been able to conserve their distinct identity through love. Love is a defining aspect of human relations—the mother-child relationship being at the core of human culture.I'm interested in learning more about the work of Maturana and Verden-Zöller, although I may return to Weber first.
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The Origin of Humanness in the Biology of Love - Humberto Maturana Romesín
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