Readings on Human Nature - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 155111156X ISBN 13 : 9781551111568

Editeur : Broadview Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Peter Loptson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and also the author of Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics (University of Toronto Press, 2001).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 155111156X
• ISBN 13: 9781551111568
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 580
• Éditeur: Loptson Peter
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• Personne responsable: non disponible