Two Orientations Toward Human Nature

Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature, vacillating between egoism and wholeness, seeing human nature not as self-interested but as herd-like. Guldmann argues that this schism reflects two diverging conceptions of human agency and that the attempt to locate human nature somewhere along a continuum between egoism and altruism presupposes a misleading picture of what it is to be a human being.

Rony Guldmann is a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University, USA.

Contents
Introduction
The presumption of egoism
The ambiguity of egoism
Egoism's unofficial opposition
Egoism and heroism
A phenomenology of heroism
Heroism and human encounter
Heroism and individuality
Bibliography
Index
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Two Orientations Toward Human Nature

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