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Author : Leslie Forster Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015000696966
Author : Leslie Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Anthropologie philosophique
ISBN : OCLC:393750167
Author : Tom Campbell
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039159558
In this invaluable introduction to the study of human society, the author presents the influential theories of Aristotle, Hobbes, Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Alfred Schutz.
Author : Leslie Stevenson,David L. Haberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043786287
A superb introduction to the timeless struggle to understand human nature, this book compresses into a small volume the essence of such thinkers as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, B.F. Skinner, and Plato.
Author : Leslie Stevenson,David L. Haberman,Peter Matthews Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190604727
Over six previous editions, Twelve Theories of Human Nature has been a remarkably popular introduction to some of the most influential developments in Western and Eastern thought. Now titled Thirteen Theories of Human Nature, this text continues to be an ideal introduction to human nature andintellectual history. This unique volume will engage and motivate students to consider how we can understand and improve both ourselves and human society.
Author : Leslie Stevenson,Leslie Forster Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015012808187
With sales of more than a quarter of a million copies in its first edition, Seven Theories of Human Nature has established itself as a classic introduction to Western intellectual theory. Stevenson examines the works of Plato, Christ, Karl Marx, Conrad Lorenz, Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and Jean-Paul Sartre, assessing each theorist on four points: his assessment of the nature of the universe and the nature of man, his view of the ills of the world, and his prescription for change. The result is an illuminating comparison of seven seminal theories of human nature.
Author : Lawrence S. Wrightsman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780803927759
"This book, which is in its second edition, provides a provocative mirror from which to discern more clearly one's own assumptions about human nature. . . . I found myself reflecting on the subject matter and its impact on my own life, including relationships, teaching, research, and therapy. . . . The author has done a superb job of raising our consciousness about human nature in this book, an I strongly recommend it to academic and applied psychologists. If you need an invitation to examine your views about human nature, this book is it." --C. R. Snyder, University of Kansas, Lawrence In general, are people trustworthy or unreliable, altruistic or selfish? Are they simple and easy to understand or complex and beyond comprehension? Our assumptions about human nature color everything from the way we bargain with a used-car dealer to our expectations about further conflict in the Middle East. Because our assumptions about human nature underlie our reactions to specific events, Wrightsman designed this second edition to enhance our understanding of human nature--the relationship of attitudes to behavior, the unidimensionality of attitudes, and the influence of social movements on beliefs. Psychologists, social workers, researchers, and students will find Assumptions About Human Nature an illuminating exploration into the philosophies of human nature.
Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780674980853
Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can at least—and at last—be identified.” —Wall Street Journal “Theoretically daring and experimentally ingenious, Becoming Human squarely tackles the abiding question of what makes us human.” —Susan Gelman, University of Michigan Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Becoming Human proposes a complementary theory of human uniqueness, focused on development. Building on the seminal ideas of Vygotsky, it explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child’s life. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tomasello draws from three decades of experimental research with chimpanzees, bonobos, and children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that differentiate humans from their primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity. In each of these, great apes possess rudimentary abilities, but the maturation of humans’ evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities into uniquely human cognition and sociality.
Author : Leslie Stevenson,David L. Haberman,Peter Matthews Wright
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199859035
Lucid and accessible, Twelve Theories of Human Nature compresses into a manageable space the essence of religious traditions such as Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jewish Scriptures, the Christian New Testament, and Islam, as well as the philosophical theories of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Sartre, and the would-be scientific accounts of human nature by Marx, Freud, and Darwin and his successors.
Author : Louis P. Pojman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophical anthropology
ISBN : UCSC:32106018087426
Pojman examines the major theories of Western philosophy and religion and Eastern thought in the context of human nature by contrasting Hebrew/Christian and classical Greek, medieval, Hindu and Buddhist, Kantian, conservative and liberal, Freudian, existential and materialistic perspectives.
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780143122012
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Author : W. O. Maloba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319509655
The successor to Kenyatta and Britain: An Account of Political Transformation, 1929-1963, this book completes the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta by examining the mechanisms of installing a neo-colonial regime in Kenya, and how such regimes were duplicated elsewhere in Africa. It analyzes the nature and extent of the collaboration between Kenyatta, Britain and Western intelligence services to install and protect his government in Kenya—a collaboration which is linked to some of Kenya's most intractable political, social and economic problems. Drawing heavily on primary sources, it examines the legacy of Kenyatta's regime, and how this legacy is felt in Kenya today.
Author : Daniel L. Pals
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015063249182
Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call "religious" so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society? Revised and updated in this second edition, Eight Theories of Religion considers how these fundamental questions have engaged the most important thinkers of the modern era. Accessible, systematic, and succinct, the text examines the classic interpretations of religion advanced by theorists who have left a major imprint on the intellectual culture of the twentieth century. The second edition features a new chapter on Max Weber, a revised introduction, and a revised, expanded conclusion that traces the paths of further inquiry and interpretation traveled by theorists in the most recent decades. Eight Theories of Religion, Second Edition, begins with Edward Burnett Tylor and James Frazer--two Victorian pioneers in anthropology and the comparative study of religion. It then considers the great "reductionist" approaches of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx, all of whom have exercised wide influence up to the present day. The discussion goes on to examine the leading challenges to reductionism as articulated by sociologist Max Weber (new to this edition) and Romanian-American comparativist Mircea Eliade. Finally, it explores the newer methods and ideas arising from the African field studies of ethnographer E. E. Evans-Pritchard and the interpretive anthropology of Clifford Geertz. Each chapter offers biographical background, theoretical exposition, conceptual analysis, and critical assessment. This common format allows for close comparison and careful evaluation throughout. Ideal for use as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the central text in sociology of religion and courses centered on the explanation and interpretation of religion, Eight Theories of Religion, Second Edition, offers an illuminating treatment of this controversial and fascinating subject.
Author : Todd Speidell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725211360
From the Introduction: "The approach of this text will be multidisciplinary: psychologists, philosophers, theologians, and ethicists grappling with what it means to be a person. This volume will not attempt to provide a comprehensive history of psychology but will instead focus on selected representatives of various paradigms of psychology: from the first systematic psychologist, Aristotle, through psychology's development as an empirical science, and to recent developments in family systems theory. It will especially emphasize a social-relational-spiritual view of the self: namely, human relations to God and to others are essential to humanity."
Author : Antonio S. Cua
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813213859
In this volume, distinguished philosopher Antonio S. Cua offers a collection of original studies on Xunzi, a leading classical Confucian thinker, and on other aspects of Chinese philosophy.
