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Author |
: Leslie Stevenson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015043786287 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ten Theories of Human Nature by : Leslie Stevenson
A superb introduction to the timeless struggle to understand human nature, this book compresses into a small volume the essence of such thinkers as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, B.F. Skinner, and Plato.
Author |
: Joel J. Kupperman |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2010-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603844543 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603844546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theories of Human Nature by : Joel J. Kupperman
Questions for Further Consideration and Recommended Further Reading, which follow each relevant chapter, encourage readers to think further and to craft their own perspectives.
Author |
: Leslie Forster Stevenson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:271392202 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seven Theories of Human Nature by : Leslie Forster Stevenson
Author |
: Louis P. Pojman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106018087426 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Who are We? by : Louis P. Pojman
Pojman examines the major theories of Western philosophy and religion and Eastern thought in the context of human nature by contrasting Hebrew/Christian and classical Greek, medieval, Hindu and Buddhist, Kantian, conservative and liberal, Freudian, existential and materialistic perspectives.
Author |
: Donald Abel |
Publisher |
: Biblio Publishing |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2015-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1622492676 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781622492671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theories of Human Nature by : Donald Abel
This anthology offers substantive selections from fifteen writers, chosen on the basis of their insight into human nature, their historical significance, and their diversity. Helpful editorial features of this book include a general introduction to the philosophy of human nature, an introduction to each reading selection, explanatory notes, annotated bibliographies of primary and secondary sources, and discussion questions.
Author |
: Leslie Forster Stevenson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015079262013 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ten Theories of Human Nature by : Leslie Forster Stevenson
Over four previous editions, Ten Theories of Human Nature has been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most influential developments in Western and Eastern thought. This fifth edition features a new chapter on Buddhism and a completely revised and reorganized chapter on Darwinian theories. Lucid and accessible, Ten Theories of Human Nature, Fifth Edition, compresses into a small space the essence of such ancient traditions as Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the Old and New Testaments as well as the theories of Plato, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The authors juxtapose the ideas of these and other thinkers and traditions in a way that helps readers understand how humanity has struggled to comprehend its nature. To encourage readers to think critically for themselves and to underscore the similarities and differences between the many theories, the book examines each one on four points--the nature of the universe, the nature of humanity, the diagnosis of the ills of humanity, and the proposed cure for these problems. Ideal for introductory courses in human nature, philosophy, religious studies, and intellectual history, Ten Theories of Human Nature, Fifth Edition, will engage and motivate students and other readers to consider how we can understand and improve both ourselves and human society.
Author |
: Leslie Stevenson |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199859035 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199859030 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twelve Theories of Human Nature by : Leslie Stevenson
Lucid and accessible, Twelve Theories of Human Nature compresses into a manageable space the essence of religious traditions such as Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jewish Scriptures, the Christian New Testament, and Islam, as well as the philosophical theories of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Sartre, and the would-be scientific accounts of human nature by Marx, Freud, and Darwin and his successors.
Author |
: Arthur O. Lovejoy |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2020-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421432441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421432447 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reflections on Human Nature by : Arthur O. Lovejoy
Originally published in 1961. Arthur O. Lovejoy, beginning with his book The Great Chain of Being, helped usher in the discipline of the History of Ideas in America. In Reflections on Human Nature, Lovejoy devotes particular attention to influential figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Bishop Butler, and Mandeville, tracing developments and changes in the concept of human nature through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He also discusses the theory of human nature held by the founders of the American Constitution, giving special attention to James Madison and the "Federalist Papers."
Author |
: Jason T. Eberl |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2020-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268107758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268107750 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nature of Human Persons by : Jason T. Eberl
Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define this nature? These questions are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain subjects of perennial interest and controversy. The Nature of Human Persons offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence. For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Jason Eberl also considers the criterion of identity for a developing human being—that is, what is required for a human being to continue existing as a person despite undergoing physical and psychological changes over time? Eberl's investigation presents and defends a theoretical perspective from the thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Advancing beyond descriptive historical analysis, this book places Aquinas’s account of human nature into direct comparison with several prominent contemporary theories: substance dualism, emergentism, animalism, constitutionalism, four-dimensionalism, and embodied mind theory. These theories inform various conclusions regarding when human beings first come into existence—at conception, during gestation, or after birth—and how we ought to define death for human beings. Finally, each of these viewpoints offers a distinctive rationale as to whether, and if so how, human beings may survive death. Ultimately, Eberl argues that the Thomistic account of human nature addresses the matters of human nature and survival in a much more holistic and desirable way than the other theories and offers a cohesive portrait of one’s continued existence from conception through life to death and beyond.
Author |
: James F. Harris |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781412847605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1412847605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ascent of Man by : James F. Harris
The Ascent of Man develops a comprehensive theory of human nature. James F. Harris sees human nature as an emergent property that supervenes a cluster of properties. Despite significant overlap between individuals that have human nature and those that are biologically human, the concept of human nature developed in this book is different. Whether biologically human or not, an individual may be said to possess human nature. This theory of human nature is called the "cluster theory." Harris takes as his point of departure Plato's comment that in learning what a thing is we should look to the ways in which it acts upon or is acted upon by other things. He commits to a methodological naturalism and draws upon current views from the social and biological sciences. The cluster theory he develops represents one of the very few completely novel theories of human nature developed in the post-Darwin era. It will prove most useful in dealing with philosophical questions involving such contemporary issues as cloning, cybernetics, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The fundamental conceptual issue is how plastic and elastic is the nature of human nature. Just how different might we imagine human beings to be and still be human in the sense that they still possess whatever it is that accounts for a unique nature? The theory of human nature developed in this book is a descriptive, dynamic, bottom-up, non-essentialist, naturalist theory. Harris is well versed in classical philosophy and contemporary behavioral science. He writes in a graceful, open-ended way that both educates and illuminates renewed interest in what it means to be human.