This anthology provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives. It can be read on its own, or in conjunction with Joel Kupperman’s text, Theories of Human Nature.
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This anthology provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives. It can be read on its own, or in conjunction with Joel Kupperman’s text, Theories of Human Nature.
About the Author:
Joel J. Kupperman is Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut. Among his many publications are Theories of Human Nature, Six Myths about the Good Life: Thinking about What Has Value, and Classic Asian Philosophy: A Guide to the Essential Texts. Theories of Human Nature and Human Nature: A Reader are also availble together as a print or eBook set. For more information on the set, please click HERE.
Contents
Introduction
Part I. Some Ancient Views of Human Nature
1. Indian Philosophy: The Upanishads and Buddha
Katha Upanishad
The Buddhist Dhamapada
2. Confucius
Analects
3. Plato and Aristotle, and Freudian Echoes of Plato
Republic
Nicomachean Ethics
The Ego and the Id
4. Mengzi and Xunzi: The Capacity for True Benevolence
Mengzi
Xunzi
5. Human Imperfection in the Judeo-Christian Tradition:
From Adam to St. Augustine
The King James Bible
Confessions
Part II. Some Modern Views of Human Nature
6. Hobbes
Leviathan
7. Butler and Hume: Inherent Tendencies toward Altruism
Sermon I
A Treatise of Human Nature
Book III: Of Morals
8. Kant: The Need for Reason to Dominate
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
9. Marx and Alienation: Our Flawed Participation in Life
Alienated Labor
The Communist Manifesto
10. Sartre and Kierkegaard: Radical Incompleteness as the Human Lot
Being and Nothingness
The Sickness unto Death