The Western Illusion of Human Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Western Illusion of Human Nature write by Marshall Sahlins. This book was released on 2008. The Western Illusion of Human Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and out of them as quickly as possible. The deep issue here is the ancient Western specter of a presocial and antisocial human nature: a supposedly innate self-interest that is represented in our native folklore as the basis or nemesis of cultural order. Yet these Western notions of nature and culture ignore the one truly universal character of human sociality: namely, symbolically constructed kinship relations. Kinsmen are members of one another: they live each other's lives and die each other's deaths. But where the existence of the other is thus incorporated in the being of the self, neither interest, nor agency or even experience is an individual fact, let alone an egoistic disposition. "Sorry, beg your pardon," Sahlins concludes, Western society has been built on a perverse and mistaken idea of human nature.
Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy
Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy write by Marshall Sahlins. This book was released on . Hierarchy, Equality, and the Sublimation of Anarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Stone Age Economics
Stone Age Economics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone Age Economics write by Marshall Sahlins. This book was released on 2020-10-28. Stone Age Economics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stone Age Economics is a classic study of anthropological economics, first published in 1974. Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, the book includes six studies which reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of the hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. The book examines notions of production, distribution and exchange in early communities and examines the link between economics and cultural and social factors. It consists of a set of detailed and closely related studies of tribal economies, of domestic production for livelihood, and of the submission of domestic production to the material and political demands of society at large.
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction
Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction write by Bhikhu Parekh. This book was released on 2001-02-22. Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. His life and thought has had an enormous impact on the Indian nation, and he continues to be widely revered - known before and after his death by assassination as Mahatma, the Great Soul.
Human Nature in Its Wholeness
Human Nature in Its Wholeness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Nature in Its Wholeness write by Daniel N. Robinson. This book was released on 2006. Human Nature in Its Wholeness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The doctrinal teaching of the Roman Catholic Church extends over two millennia and seeks to inform and direct lives at many levels: personal, familial, civic, and institutional. The reach of this teaching extends to law, moral and ethical issues, politics, education, science, and art. No single volume can serve even as a sketch of this teaching, but in the present volume ten internationally renowned scholars address the various dimensions of the Roman Catholic understanding of the human person, especially St. Thomas Aquinas's affirmation of the rational and social nature of man. The authors present a truly multidisciplinary approach to the topic--the contributors include philosophers, psychologists, political scientists, a theologian, and an architect. Special attention is given to the theology and anthropology of Pope John Paul II whose writings vividly condense the searching examination and robust conception of human nature developed over the centuries. Readers are reminded of just how central the Church's teaching has been to Western Civilization in all of its projections and are thus alerted to the conditions likely to preserve or threaten it. The contributors are Hadley Arkes, Jude P. Dougherty, Kevin Flannery, S.J., Robert P. George, Richard Gill, L.C., F. Russell Hittinger, Daniel N. Robinson, Robert Royal, Peter Ryan, S.J., and Carroll William Westfall. ABOUT THE EDITORS: Daniel N. Robinson is professor of philosophy at Oxford University and visiting professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences. He is professor emeritus of Georgetown University. Gladys M. Sweeney is dean of the Institute for the Psychological Sciences. Richard Gill, L.C., is director of the women's section of the Legionaries of Christ. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "This volume offers the possibility of a fruitful dialogue on the question of Catholic identity in higher education." -- Lucien Richard, Catholic Library World
