|
| |
|
Detail
 |
On Human Nature
|
| Category: |
Books > Theology > Philosophy
|
| Author/Artist: |
ROGER SCRUTON |
| ISBN / ID: |
9780691183039 |
| Publisher: |
Princeton University Pres |
| Binding: |
PAPERBACK |
| Price: |
AU$27.99 |
|
 |
| Description: |
In a brief, radical defense of human uniqueness Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights.
Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averroes to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with Kant's suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say "I"-by our sense of ourselves as the centres of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning.
Ultimately, Scruton offers a way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live. The result is a rich view of human nature that challenges some of today's most fashionable ideas about our species. |
|
 |
|
|
|
| |
Please
note: All
prices listed on this site are in Australian Dollars (AU$)
and are GST inclusive.
Prices
may change without notice. Postage & packing extra.
|
|
