Two Orientations Toward Human Nature

By Rony Guldmann

Book Overview

Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature, vacillating between egoism and wholeness, 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138265071
• ISBN13: 9781138265073
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"