Reflections on human nature

✍ Scribed by Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
• Year: 1961
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

The self-appraisal of man --
The theory of human nature in the American constitution and the method of counterpoise --
The desires of the self-conscious animal --
Approbativeness as the universal, distinctive, and dominant passion of man --
The "love of praise" as the indispensable substitute for "reason and virtue" in Seventeenth and Eighteenth century theories of human nature --
Approbativeness and "pride" in political and economic thought --
The indictment of pride --
Some ethical reflections.

✦ Subjects

Philosophy;Anthropologie philosophique;Philosophy