The Study of Human Nature: Readings

By: Stevenson, Leslie

Book Overview

Now in a new edition, this exceptional anthology provides an introduction to a wide variety of views on human nature. Drawing from diverse cultures over three millennia, Leslie Stevenson has chosen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195028279
• ISBN13: 9780195028270
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

This book helped change my life.

Wow, it is truly amazing when a book can drastically change your life, as this on did mine. The diverse theories of human nature are awesome to investigate. Some people believe the weirdest shiznit. The class I took allowed me to contemplate deep questions that I didn't even know I had within me. I thought long and hard for many cold nights with a cup of tea in hand, a teddy bear to keep me company. I discovered myself. Who I really am? "I am what I am. I will become what becomes of me." There can be no more solid truth than that. I think my philosophy professor thought I was one step away from the loony bin after she read all my radical theories of human nature. But I only used logic to come to my conclusions. This book takes you on a quest through the past to review the logic used by ancients and somewhat contemporaries, to come up with personal beliefs about God, life, and existence. Now I don't even know if I exist. I cannot prove it really. Maybe all is a dream world. I wanted to find truth, and this book helped me find a path toward truth. And that is no lie. Buy this book and see what I mean. You will come to understand human nature- hopefully. But buyer beware; you may find that- you too- do not know whether you truly exist.

Must Have

This fascinating book consist on a compilation of the best writing on the subject of what is to be human. Since the books included here are the bible , other sacred books, Decarte, etc, it is absurd to rate the writer's talents. They have been established a long time ago. Therefore all merit goes to the editor who has done a briliant job selecting what was worth showing.