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Theories of Human Nature : Classical and Contemporary Readings

Donald C. Abel

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General Introduction. 1. PLATO: The Republic. 2. ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics. 3. MENCIUS: The Book of Mencius. 4. LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA: On the Happy Life. 5. AUGUSTINE: The Free Choice of the Will. 6. THOMAS AQUINAS: Summa Theologiae. 7. RENE DESCARTES: Meditations on First Philosophy. 8. DAVID HUME: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals. 9. KARL MARX: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. 10. FREIDRICH NIETZSCHE: Human, All Too Human. 11. SIGMUND FREUD: Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis. 12. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE: Existentialism Is a Humanism. 13. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: The Ethics of Ambiguity. 14. B. F. SKINNER: About Behaviorism. 15. EDWARD O. WILSON: On Human Nature

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Key concepts: Philosophy, Existentialism, Humanism, Behaviorism, Epistemology, Ambiguity, Psychoanalysis, Theology