Couverture / Jaquette

Previous editions include: Twelve theories of human nature / Leslie Stevenson (6th ed.); Ten theories of human nature / Leslie Stevenson (5th ed.)

Note biographique

Leslie Stevenson is Honorary Reader in Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

David L. Haberman is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Peter Matthews Wright is Associate Professor and Chair of Religion at Colorado College.

Charlotte Witt is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of New Hampshire.

Table des matières

• Introduction: Rival Theories and Critical Assessments


• 1. Confucianism: The Way of the Sages


• 2. Upanishadic Hinduism: Quest for Ultimate Knowledge


• 3. Buddhism: In the Footsteps of the Buddha


• 4. Plato: The Rule of Reason


• 5. Aristotle: The Ideal of Human Fulfillment


• 6. The Bible: Humanity in Relation to God


• 7. Islam: The Khalifa Ideal


• Historical Interlude


• 8. Kant: Reasons and Causes, Morality and Religion


• 9. Marx: The Economic Basis of Human Societies


• 10. Freud: The Unconscious Basis of Mind


• 11. Sartre: Radical Freedom


• 12. Darwinian Theories of Human Nature


• 13. Human Nature and Feminist Theory

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