A01=Rony Guldmann
agent
alienation in modern culture
Author_Rony Guldmann
Category=QDH
Category=QDTQ
continental philosophy
Devious
digestive
Digestive Agent
Digestive Model
Digestive Terms
Economic Egoism
egoism
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Expressive Fulfillment
Follow
heroic
Heroic Agent
Heroic Aspirations
Heroic Conviction
Heroic Meaning
Heroic Model
Heroic Significance
Heroic Status
Ignoble Sentiment
individualism versus collectivism
Intermediate Phenomena
La Rochefoucauld
model
moral psychology
mundane
Mundane Egoism
opposition
Pause
phenomenology of heroism
philosophy of agency
significance
Structural Presumptuousness
Superimposed
theories of human motivation
Thoreau
tough
Tough Minded View
unofficial
Unofficial Opposition
Violated
Product details
- ISBN 9781138265073
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature. On the one hand, egoism is held to be our most powerful motive, playing a crucial cultural role by explaining the appeal of capitalism and providing a foundation for individualism. By contrast much of the continental intellectual tradition speaks of wholeness and alienation, 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. The second, ’continental’ tradition is more illuminating because it recognizes that human beings are necessarily committed to some conception of the ultimately significant.
Rony Guldmann
