Man Is By Nature A Political Animal

Author : Peter K. Hatemi,Rose McDermott
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226319117

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Man Is by Nature a Political Animal by Peter K. Hatemi,Rose McDermott Pdf

In Man Is by Nature a Political Animal, Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political behavior. Focusing on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical frameworks of a variety of biological approaches to political attitudes and preferences, the authors consider a wide range of topics, including the comparative basis of political behavior, the utility of formal modeling informed by evolutionary theory, the genetic bases of attitudes and behaviors, psychophysiological methods and research, and the wealth of insight generated by recent research on the human brain. Through this approach, the book reveals the biological bases of many previously unexplained variances within the extant models of political behavior. The diversity of methods discussed and variety of issues examined here will make this book of great interest to students and scholars seeking a comprehensive overview of this emerging approach to the study of politics and behavior.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141913261

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The Politics by Aristotle Pdf

Twenty-three centuries after its compilation, 'The Politics' still has much to contribute to this central question of political science. Aristotle's thorough and carefully argued analysis is based on a study of over 150 city constitutions, covering a huge range of political issues in order to establish which types of constitution are best - both ideally and in particular circumstances - and how they may be maintained. Aristotle's opinions form an essential background to the thinking of philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli and Jean Bodin and both his premises and arguments raise questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world.

Author : Geert Keil,Nora Kreft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107192690

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Aristotle's Anthropology by Geert Keil,Nora Kreft Pdf

The first collection of essays on Aristotle's philosophy of human nature, covering the metaphysical, biological and ethical works.

Author : Juhana Toivanen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438460

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The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy by Juhana Toivanen Pdf

In The Political Animal in Medieval Philosophy Juhana Toivanen investigates the foundations of human social life through the Aristotelian notion of ‘political animal’, as it was used in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434428042

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Politics by Aristotle Pdf

The first eighth of Aristotle's (384-322 BC) work of political philosophy.

Author : Stephen R L Clark,Stephen R.L Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134658602

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The Political Animal by Stephen R L Clark,Stephen R.L Clark Pdf

People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young. Stephen Clark, grounded in biological analysis and traditional ethics, probes into areas ignored in mainstream political theory and argues for the significance of social bonds which bypass or transcend state authority. Understanding the ties that bind us reveals how enormously capable we are in achieving civil order as a species. Stephen Clark advocates that a properly informed political philosophy must take into account the role of women, children, animals, minorities and the domestic virtues at large. Living and comnducting our political lives like the animals we are is a more congenial prospect than is usually supposed.

Author : Graham Wallas
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1412825695

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Human Nature in Politics by Graham Wallas Pdf

If he had been pressed, Macaulay would probably have admitted that there are cases in which human acts and impulses to act occur independently of any idea of an end to be gained by them. If I have a piece of grit in my eye and ask some one to take it out with the corner of his handkerchief, I generally close the eye as soon as the handkerchief comes near, and always feel a strong impulse to do so. Nobody supposes that I close my eye because, after due consideration, I think it my interest to do so.

Author : David J. Riesbeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107107021

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Aristotle on Political Community by David J. Riesbeck Pdf

A unified interpretation of Aristotle's views about the distinctive nature and value of political community, rule and participation.

Author : Robin Douglass,Johan Olsthoorn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108421980

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Hobbes's On the Citizen by Robin Douglass,Johan Olsthoorn Pdf

The first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen, containing twelve original essays by leading Hobbes scholars.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Political science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006544279

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Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle Pdf

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812979374

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The Social Animal by David Brooks Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.

Author : Rick Shenkman
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780465073825

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Political Animals by Rick Shenkman Pdf

Can a football game affect the outcome of an election? What about shark attacks? Or a drought? In a rational world the answer, of course, would be no. But as bestselling historian Rick Shenkman explains in Political Animals, our world is anything but rational. Drawing on science, politics, and history, Shenkman explores the hidden forces behind our often illogical choices. Political Animals challenges us to go beyond the headlines, which often focus on what politicians do (or say they'll do), and to concentrate instead on what's really important: what shapes our response. Shenkman argues that, contrary to what we tell ourselves, it's our instincts rather than arguments appealing to reason that usually prevail. Pop culture tells us we can trust our instincts, but science is proving that when it comes to politics our Stone Age brain often malfunctions, misfires, and leads us astray. Fortunately, we can learn to make our instincts work in our favor. Shenkman takes readers on a whirlwind tour of laboratories where scientists are exploring how sea slugs remember, chimpanzees practice deception, and patients whose brains have been split in two tell stories. The scientists' findings give us new ways of understanding our history and ourselves -- and prove we don't have to be prisoners of our evolutionary past." In this engaging, illuminating, and often riotous chronicle of our political culture, Shenkman probes the depths of the human mind to explore how we can become more political, and less animal.

Author : Lee MacLean
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442644953

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The Free Animal by Lee MacLean Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Kraut
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198782004

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Aristotle by Richard Kraut Pdf

This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times. Beginning with a critique of subjectivist accounts of well-being, Kraut goes on to assess Aristotle's objective and universalistic account ofeudaimonia and excellent activity. He offers a detailed interpretation of Aristotle's conception of justice in the Nicomachean Ethics, and then turns to the major themes of the Politics: the political nature of human beings, the city's priority over the individual, the justification of slavery, thedefence of the family and property, the pluralistic nature of cities and the need for their unification, the distinction between good citizenship and full virtue, the value and limits of popular control over elites, the corrosive effects of poverty and wealth, the critique of democratic conceptionsof freedom and equality, and the radically egalitarian institutions of the ideal society. Aristotle's political philosophy, as Kraut reads it, provides a model of the way in which a rich understanding of human well-being can guide the amelioration of a world in which agreement about the human goodis rarely, if ever, achieved.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375031626

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History of Animals by Aristotle Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.