Man's Nature and Nature's Man
Author | : Lee Raymond Dice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Adaptation (Biology) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lee Raymond Dice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Adaptation (Biology) |
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Author | : Maurizio Valsania |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813933579 |
Although scholars have adequately covered Thomas Jefferson's general ideas about human nature and race, this is the first book to examine what Maurizio Valsania terms Jefferson's "philosophical anthropology"--philosophical in the sense that he concerned himself not with describing how humans are, culturally or otherwise, but with the kind of human being Jefferson thought he was, wanted to become, and wished for citizens to be for the future of the United States. Valsania's exploration of this philosophical anthropology touches on Jefferson's concepts of nationalism, slavery, gender roles, modernity, affiliation, and community. More than that, Nature's Man shows how Jefferson could advocate equality and yet control and own other human beings. A humanist who asserted the right of all people to personal fulfillment, Jefferson nevertheless had a complex philosophy that also acknowledged the dynamism of nature and the limits of human imagination. Despite Jefferson's famous advocacy of apparently individualistic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Valsania argues that both Jefferson's yearning for the human individual to become something good and his fear that this hypothetical being would turn into something bad were rooted in a specific form of communitarianism. Absorbing and responding to certain moral-philosophical currents in Europe, Jefferson's nature-infused vision underscored the connection between the individual and the community.
Author | : Lee Raymond Dice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : Adaptation (Biology) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Perkins Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Pasnau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521001892 |
A major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.
Author | : Alan Watts |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1577311809 |
Alan Watts introduced millions of Western readers to Zen and other Eastern philosophies. But he is also recognized as a brilliant commentator on Judeo-Christian traditions, as well as a celebrity philosopher who exemplified the ideas — and lifestyle — of the 1960s counterculture. In this compilation of controversial lectures that Watts delivered at American universities throughout the sixties, he challenges readers to reevaluate Western culture's most hallowed constructs. Watts treads the familiar ground of interpreting Eastern traditions, but he also covers new territory, exploring the counterculture's basis in the ancient tribal and shamanic cultures of Asia, Siberia, and the Americas. In the process, he addresses some of the era's most important questions: What is the nature of reality? How does an individual's relationship to society affect this reality? Filled with Watts's playful, provocative style, the talks show the remarkable scope of a philosopher at his prime, exploring and defining the sixties counterculture as only Alan Watts could.
Author | : George Perkins Marsh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Midgley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1134438451 |
Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are rather more like other animals than we previously allowed ourselves to believe, and reminds us just how primitive we are in comparison to the sophistication of many animals. A veritable classic for our age, Beast and Man has helped change the way we think about ourselves and the world in which we live.
Author | : Lloyd E. Sandelands |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2017-12-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351507575 |
"Contemporary American life is tinged with dissatisfaction. Increased wealth and comfort and technological advances have not made individuals happier or society more companionable. Today Americans marry later or not at all, and they fail at marriage as often as they succeed. Man and Nature in God is a story of contemporary American decadence, a grim tale of our flagging relation to nature, a tale confirmed at the center of our sexual lives. Sandelands grounds his critique in a modern philosophical error. We have conflated a particular metaphysical outlook--the subjective standpoint of science--with our relationship, as humans, to nature. We fail to see that however much we may learn about nature by treating it as object to our subject, we cannot in this way learn what we most want and most need to know about nature and about ourselves. Answers to such questions as ""How are we related to nature?"" and ""How are we to think and act truly in nature"" continue to elude us.Cast as ideology by the ""isms"" of humanism, naturalism, and postmodernism, today's subjective standpoint has turned the question of truth into one question of politics. The unhappy result has been and continues to be a profound and deadly misunderstanding of nature as well as man, epitomized in contemporary American culture today. Taking this as his starting point, Sandelands suggests how we can save ourselves from our mortifying philosophical error, thereby claiming our true relation to nature, and reinvigorating our sexual lives. He identifies the need for a natural philosophy that takes God to be the starting point of self-understanding.Although the book is about philosophy, it is not only for the academic philosopher. Although it is about theology, it is not only for the theologian or student of religion. And although the book takes modern biological and social sciences to task, it is not only for biological and social scientists. Instead, Man and Nature in God is for everyone concerned about the disma"
Author | : Lee MacLean |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442644958 |
Featuring careful analyses and an extensive engagement with the secondary literature, The Free Animal offers a novel interpretation of the changing nature and complexity of Rousseau's intention.