Persons in Relation

by John Macmurray

Book Overview

This is the second volume of Professor Macmurray's Gifford Lectures on The Form of the Personal. The first volume, The Self as Agent, was concerned to shift the center of philosophy from thought to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0391037161
• ISBN13: 9780391037168
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Humanities Press Intl
• Length: 11 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I wish everybody would read this guy

John MacMurray offers a view of human life that could change us all, exploring with great care the nature of human relationship. His view (offered fifty years ago) points toward the social constructionism that was to follow, but without slipping over the edge into moral relativism. In fact, taken seriously, his view of community provides a philosophical basis for a morality that could work for all of us. One of the things I love about this book is that you can find yourself in it and it becomes clear how you can be a better human being--and not in the pointless, self-focused mode of contemporary self-help literature. MacMurray is a philosopher and you have to be willing to deal with his careful categories and sometimes slightly cumbersome language, but it is worth the effort.