Roger Scruton

On Human Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights. Our world is a shared world, exhibiting freedom, value, and accountability, and to understand it we must address other people face to face and I to I. Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant's suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say "I" - by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9780691168753
• ISBN-10: 069116875X
• Artikelnr.: 45793706

Autorenporträt

Roger Scruton

Rezensionen

"I admire Roger Scruton's stance and I admire his writing. In this short book, he raises and discusses deeply important issues about the human world."--Simon Blackburn, author of Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy