The Study of Human Nature
A Reader
2nd Edition
Published on 16. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-19-512715-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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"A superbly well chosen variety of human definitions, equipping readers in the relevant dimensions of psychology, anthropology, sociology, metaphysics, and religion."--George E. LaMore, Jr., Iowa Wesleyan CollegeMore details
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
427 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-512715-7 (9780195127157)
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01/1981
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
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"
RENE 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
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"
RENE 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