Two Orientations Toward Human Nature (Ashgate New Critical by Rony Guldmann

By Rony Guldmann

Our tradition entertains a schizophrenic perspective in the direction of human nature. at the one hand, egoism is held to be our strongest rationale, enjoying an important cultural function by way of explaining the charm of capitalism and offering a beginning for individualism. against this a lot of the continental highbrow culture speaks of wholeness and alienation, seeing human nature no longer as self-interested yet as herd-like. Guldmann argues that this schism displays diverging conceptions of human company, and that the try and find human nature someplace alongside a continuum among egoism and altruism presupposes a deceptive photo of what it really is to be a man or woman. the second one, ’continental’ culture is extra illuminating since it acknowledges that humans are inevitably devoted to a couple notion of the finally significant.

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