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Towards a Rational Philosophical Anthropology

✍ Scribed by Joseph Agassi (auth.)


Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Leaves
413
Series
The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation Series 1
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


The thesis of the present volume is critical and dual. (1) Present day philosophy of man and sciences of man suffer from the Greek misΒ­ taken polarization of everything human into nature and convention which is (allegedly) good and evil, which is (allegedly) truth and falΒ­ sity, which is (allegedly) rationality and irrationality, to wit, the polarΒ­ ization of all fields of inquiry, the natural and social sciences, as well as ethics and all technology, whether natural or social, into the totally positive and the totally negative. (2) Almost all philosophy and sciΒ­ ences of man share the erroneous work ethic which is the myth of man's evil nature - the myth of the beast in man, the doctrine of original sin. To mediate or to compromise between the first view of human nature as good with the second view of it as evil, sociologists have devised a modified utilitarianism with deferred gratification soΒ­ called, and the theory of the evil of artificial competition (capitalist and socialist alike) and of keeping up with the Joneses. Now, the mediation is not necessary. For, the polarization makes for abstract errors which are simplistic views of rationality, such as reductionism and positivism of all sorts, as well as for concrete errors, such as the disposition to condemn repeatedly those human weaknesses which are inevitable, namely man's inability to be perfectly rational, avoid all error, etc. , thus setting man against himself as all too wicked.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Against the Elitism of Excessive Scholarship....Pages 1-20
Man as Machine....Pages 21-91
Man as Animal....Pages 92-188
Man as Rational....Pages 189-255
Man as Social....Pages 256-317
Man in the Image of God....Pages 318-370
Back Matter....Pages 371-404

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