Human Nature and Its Remaking - Couverture rigide

Hocking, William Ernest

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0548005419 ISBN 13 : 9780548005415

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2007

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Présentation de l'éditeur

No doubt, we have always had our authorities ready to spare us the trouble of search, ready to settle ext cathedra what human nature is and ought to become. And presumably we have always had a party of revolt against authority, convention, and the like, in the name of what is natural, a revolt which has commonly been as dogmatic and intuitional as the authority itself. But the revolt of today is no longer either impressionistic or sporadic. It is psychological, economic, political: and it is general. The explosive forces of self-assertion which have finally burst their bounds in the political life of Central Europe have their seat in a widespread spiritual rebellion, a critical impatience of established sentiments and respectabilities, a deliberate philosophic rejection not more of Hagne Conventions than of other conventions, a drastic judgment of non-reality upon the pieties of Christendom. This rebellion would hardly have become so widespread or so disastrous if it were wholly without ground. It indicates that our moral idealisms like our metaphysical idealisms have been taking their task too complacently. Our Western world has adhered to standards with which it has never supposed its practice to be in accord; but heaving a resigned sigh over the erring tendencies of human nature, it has offered to these standards that of course variety of homage which is the beginning of mental and moral coma.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

One shope is, not to close discussion, but to open it. What I have here aimed to do is the work rather of the quarryman with his blasting powder than of the sculptor with his chisel. Not that the quarry of human nature is a new one. But that we are only beginning to learn the technique of dealing with the larger masses. Few of us, I dare say, are satisfied with the degree of clarity we have reached about the rights of the primitive impulses, of the instincts of pugnacity, sex, acquisition, etc., as compared with the claims of social orders such as we see dissolving before our eyes, or of super-social orders, of art and religion. These and other agencies attempt to transform the original material of human nature; human nature resists the remaking process; the groping effort of mutual adjustment has continued throughout the length of history, has made the chief theme of history; we still seek the broader principles which govern the process, call it what you will, the process of remaking, of educating, of civilizing, of con verting or of saving the human being. Quest of such principles is the object of this present essay.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0548005419
• ISBN 13: 9780548005415
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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