Description: Two Orientations Toward Human Nature, Hardcover by Guldmann, Rony, ISBN 0754655520, ISBN-13 9780754655527, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Two Orientations Toward Human Nature
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
Publication Name: Two Orientations Toward Human Nature
Language: English
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Free Will & Determinism, General, Good & Evil
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.7 Oz
Author: Rony Guldmann
Subject Area: Philosophy, Psychology
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.3 in
Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy Ser.
Format: Hardcover
