On Human Nature (eBook)

Roger Scruton (Autor)

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2017
160 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8466-7 (ISBN)

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Roger Scruton is a writer and philosopher. His many books include The Soul of the World and The Aesthetics of Architecture (both Princeton), as well as A Short History of Modern Philosophy; Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left; and The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelung.' He lives in Wiltshire, England.

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A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Our world is a shared world, exhibiting freedom, value, and accountability, and to understand it we must address other people face to face and I to I.Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroes to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant's suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say "e;I"e;-by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning. And it lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy, even though it is a natural and not a supernatural fact. Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live.The result is a rich view of human nature that challenges some of today's most fashionable ideas about our species.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2017
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Accountability • affection • Altruism • Archetype • Arthur Schopenhauer • awareness • Behavior • Career • Categorical imperative • Charles Darwin • Concept • Consciousness • Consequentialism • Consideration • Controversy • Criticism • David Gauthier • David Wiggins • deed • Derek Parfit • Desecration • Dilemma • Disposition • Double truth • Edmund Husserl • Elizabeth Anscombe • Emergence • Ethical Dilemma • ethics • Evolutionary Psychology • Explanation • Folk Psychology • Hannah Arendt • Human nature • hypothesis • idealism • Ideology • Incest • Inquiry • intentionality • Jean-Paul Sartre • John Rawls • Joseph Raz • laughter • Lecture • Literature • Meme • Modern Moral Philosophy • Moral absolutism • Morality • Moral Reasoning • Obedience (human behavior) • Obligation • On Aggression • ON HUMAN NATURE • Oxford University Press • Person • Personhood • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • piety • Political Philosophy • pollution • Practical reason • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Principle • propositional attitude • Pseudoscience • Public morality • Qualia • Rational Choice Theory • Reality • reason • Religion • Requirement • result • Robert Nozick • Roger Scruton • Science • Scientific Method • self-consciousness • Self-ownership • Self-reference • sexual desire • sexual ethics • Sexual Selection • Shame • Søren Kierkegaard • Subjectivity • Suggestion • theory • The Soul of the World • Thomas Nagel • Thought • Transcendental idealism • Understanding • Utilitarianism • World View
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8466-7 / 1400884667
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8466-7 / 9781400884667