Human nature : a reader / edited by Joel J. Kupperman
- Published
- Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- viii, 231 pages ; 22 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Kupperman, Joel
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Some Ancient Views of Human Nature -- 1.Indian Philosophy: The Upanishads and Buddha -- Katha Upanishad -- The Buddhist Dhamapada -- 2.Confucius -- Analects -- 3.Plato and Aristotle, and Freudian Echoes of Plato -- Republic -- Nicomachean Ethics -- The Ego and the Id -- 4.Mengzi and Xunzi: The Capacity for True Benevolence -- Mengzi -- Xunzi -- 5.Human Imperfection in the Judeo-Christian Tradition: From Adam to St. Augustine -- The King James Bible -- Confessions -- pt. II Some Modern Views of Human Nature -- 6.Hobbes -- Leviathan -- 7.Butler and Hume: Inherent Tendencies toward Altruism -- Sermon I -- A Treatise of Human Nature -- 8.Kant: The Need for Reason to Dominate -- Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals -- 9.Marx and Alienation: Our Flawed Participation in Life -- Alienated Labor -- The Communist Manifesto -- 10.Sartre and Kierkegaard: Radical Incompleteness as the Human Lot -- Being and Nothingness.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781603847452 (pbk.)
1603847456 (pbk.)
9781603847469 (cloth)
1603847464 (cloth) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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