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Two Orientations Toward Human Nature

Om Two Orientations Toward Human Nature

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, ΓÇÖcontinentalΓÇÖ tradition is more illuminating because it recognizes that human beings are necessarily committed to some conception of the ultimately significant.

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  • Språk:
  • Engelska
  • ISBN:
  • 9781138265073
  • Format:
  • Häftad
  • Sidor:
  • 238
  • Utgiven:
  • 15. november 2016
  • Mått:
  • 156x234x0 mm.
  • Vikt:
  • 453 g.
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Leveranstid: 2-4 veckor
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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, ΓÇÖcontinentalΓÇÖ tradition is more illuminating because it recognizes that human beings are necessarily committed to some conception of the ultimately significant.

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