Human nature : a reader

Author(s)

• Kupperman, Joel

Bibliographic Information

Human nature : a reader

edited by Joel J. Kupperman

（Readings in philosophy）

Hackett Pub. Co., c2012

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This anthology provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives. It can be read on its own, or in conjunction with Joel Kupperman's text, Theories of Human Nature .

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Indian Philosophy: The Upanishads & Buddha Katha Upanishad
• The Buddhist Dhamapada
• Confucius Analects
• Plato & Aristotle, & Freudian Echoes of Plato Republic
• Nicomachean Ethics
• The Ego & the Id
• Mengzi & Xunzi: The Capacity for True Benevolence
• Human Imperfection in the Judeo-Christian Tradition: From Adam to St. Augustine
• The King James Bible
• Confessions
• Hobbes Leviathan
• Butler & Hume: Inherent Tendencies toward Altruism Sermon I
• A Treatise of Human Nature
• Book III: Of Morals
• Kant: The Need for Reason to Dominate Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
• Marx & Alienation: Our Flawed Participation in Life Alienated Labor
• The Communist Manifesto
• Sartre & Kierkegaard: Radical Incompleteness as the Human Lot Being & Nothingness
• The Sickness unto Death.

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Details

• NCID: BB09504489
• ISBN:
  • 9781603847452
• LCCN: 2011041656
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Indianapolis, Ind.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 231 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BD450
  • DC23 : 128
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophical anthropology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA23396902