The Study of Human Nature

A Reader

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

1999 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-512715-7 (ISBN)

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This anthology provides an introduction to a variety of views about human nature, from various cultures over three millennia. It ranges from ancient religious texts down to contemporary theories based on evolutionary science. It can be used as a reader to go along with Ten Theories of Human Nature, third edition (OUP, 1998), but it is also usable independently, by students or the general reader.

Preface
THE HEBREW BIBLE (the Old Testament)
Genesis 1-3
Psalms
HINDUISM
Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad
Katha Upanishad
CONFUCIANISM
Mencius, "Human Nature is Good"
Hsun-tzu, "Human Nature is Evil"
PLATO
Republic
CHRISTIANITY (the New Testament)
St. Paul, Letter to the Romans
St. Paul, First Letter to the Corinthians
ISLAM
Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahhari, "Man and Faith"
RENÉ DESCARTES
Discourse on Method
THOMAS HOBBES
Leviathan
DAVID HUME
Treatise of Human Nature
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Emile
IMMANUEL KANT
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
KARL MARX
The Materialist Theory of History
Consciousness and the Division of Labour
JOHN STUART MILL
The Subjection of Women
CHARLES DARWIN
The Descent of Man
SIGMUND FREUD
B.A. Farrell, "A Reconstruction of Freud's Mature Theory"
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Existentialism and Humanism
B.F. SKINNER
About Behaviorism
KONRAD LORENZ
On Aggression
NOAM CHOMSKY
"Language and the Human Mind"
HENRY M. BRACKEN
"Essence, Accident and Race"
EDWARD D. WILSON
On Human Nature
NANCY HOLMSTROM
"Do Women Have a Distinct Nature?"
STEVEN ROSE, RICHARD LEWONTIN, AND LEON J. KAMIN
Not in our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
MATT RIDLEY
The Origins of Virtue

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.1999
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 210 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-512715-3 / 0195127153
ISBN-13	978-0-19-512715-7 / 9780195127157
Zustand	Neuware