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The Study of Human Nature A Reader

ISBN: 9780195127157 | 0195127153
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/11/1999

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 selections ranging from ancient religious texts to contemporary theories based on evolutionary science. An ideal companion to the editor's recent book, Ten Theories of Human Nature, 3/e (OUP, 1998), this interdisciplinary reader can also be used independently. The Study of Human Nature, 2/e offers substantial selections illustrating the ten perspecti... MORE
Prefacev
The Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament)
1(8)
Genesis 1--3
2(5)
... MOREPsalms
7(2)
Hinduism
9(13)
Bribad Aranyaka Upanishad
10(4)
Katha Upanishad
14(8)
Confucianism
22(12)
Mencius, ``Human Nature Is Good''
23(4)
Hsun-tzu, ``Human Nature Is Evil''
27(7)
Plato
34(22)
Republic
35(21)
Christianity (the New Testament)
56(13)
St. Paul, Letter to the Romans
57(8)
St. Paul, First Letter to the Corinthians
65(4)
Islam
69(15)
Ayatullah Murtaza Mutahhari, ``Man and Faith''
70(14)
Rene Descartes
84(6)
Discourse on Method
85(5)
Thomas Hobbes
90(8)
Leviathan
91(7)
David Hume
98(11)
Treatise of Human Nature
99(10)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
109(8)
Emile
110(7)
Immanuel Kant
117(22)
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
118(9)
Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
127(12)
Karl Marx
139(14)
The Materialist Theory of History
140(7)
Consciousness and the Division of Labour
147(6)
John Stuart Mill
153(9)
The Subjection of Women
154(8)
Charles Darwin
162(7)
The Descent of Man
163(6)
Sigmund Freud
169(16)
B. A. Farrell, ``A Reconstruction of Freud's Mature Theory''
170(15)
Jean-Paul Sartre
185(22)
Existentialism and Humanism
186(21)
B. F. Skinner
207(15)
About Behaviorism
208(14)
Konrad Lorenz
222(15)
On Aggression
223(14)
Noam Chomsky
237(20)
``Language and the Human Mind''
238(19)
Henry M. Bracken
257(13)
``Essence, Accident and Race''
258(12)
Edward O. Wilson
270(18)
On Human Nature
271(17)
Nancy Holmstrom
288(15)
``Do Women Have a Distinct Nature?''
289(14)
Steven Rose, Richard Lewontin, and Leon J. Kamin
303(13)
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
304(12)
Matt Ridley
1
The Origins of Virtue
317
Leslie Stevenson is Reader in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

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