Two Orientations Toward Human Nature
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2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26507-3 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26507-3 (ISBN)
Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature. On the one hand, egoism is held to be our most powerful motive, playing a crucial cultural role by explaining the appeal of capitalism and providing a foundation for individualism. By contrast much of the continental intellectual tradition speaks of wholeness and alienation, seeing human nature not as self-interested but as herd-like. Guldmann argues that this schism reflects two diverging conceptions of human agency, and that the attempt to locate human nature somewhere along a continuum between egoism and altruism presupposes a misleading picture of what it is to be a human being. The second, ’continental’ tradition is more illuminating because it recognizes that human beings are necessarily committed to some conception of the ultimately significant.
Rony Guldmann
Contents: Introduction; The presumption of egoism; The ambiguity of egoism; Egoism's unofficial opposition; Egoism and heroism; A phenomenology of heroism; Heroism and human encounter; Heroism and individuality; Bibliography; Index.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-26507-1 / 1138265071 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-26507-3 / 9781138265073 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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