Rony Guldmann

Two Orientations Toward Human Nature (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature. On the one hand, egoism is held to be our most powerful motive, playing a crucial cultural role by explaining the appeal of capitalism and providing a foundation for individualism. By contrast much of the continental intellectual tradition speaks of wholeness and alienation, 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. The second, 'continental' tradition is more illuminating because it recognizes that human beings are necessarily committed to some conception of the ultimately significant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351877152
• Artikelnr.: 49355438

Autorenporträt

Rony Guldmann

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The presumption of egoism
The ambiguity of egoism
Egoism's unofficial opposition
Egoism and heroism
A phenomenology of heroism
Heroism and human encounter
Heroism and individuality
Bibliography
Index.