Readings on Human Nature

Readings on Human Nature
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Publisher : Broadview Press
Total Pages : 588
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ISBN-10 : 155111156X
ISBN-13 : 9781551111568
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Book Synopsis Readings on Human Nature by : Peter Loptson

Download or read book Readings on Human Nature written by Peter Loptson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1998-02-04 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together 45 selections by a wide range of philosophers and other thinkers, and provides a representative sampling of the approaches to the study of human nature that have been taken within the western tradition. The selections range in time from the ancient Greeks to the 1990s, and in political orientation from the conservative individualism of Ayn Rand to the liberalism of John Rawls. Classic writings from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries are here (Descartes, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, and so on), but so are a wide range of twentieth-century writings, including a number of feminist voices, the biological theory of Edward O. Wilson, and the cultural materialist theory of Marvin Harris. A substantial selection of Christian views of human nature is a central part of the anthology. The anthology is as notable for its depth as it is for its breadth; an important editorial principle has been to include a variety of substantial selections, thus allowing the reader to engage more readily with some of the complexities of each approach.


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