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Two Orientations Toward Human Nature

Two Orientations Toward Human Nature

Hardcover

Series: Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0754655520
ISBN13: 9780754655527
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 28 2007
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature, vacillating between egoism and wholeness, 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.

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