Reflections on Human Nature /
Originally published in 1961. Arthur O. Lovejoy, beginning with his book The Great Chain of Being, helped usher in the discipline of the History of Ideas in America. In Reflections on Human Nature, Lovejoy devotes particular attention to influential figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Bishop Butler, and...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins Press,
2019
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| Edition: | Johns Hopkins Press paperback editions, 1968 |
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Table of Contents:
- The self-appraisal of man
- The theory of human nature in the American constitution and the method of counterpoise
- The desires of the self-conscious animal
- Approbativeness as the universal, distinctive, and dominant passion of man
- The "love of praise" as the indispensable substitute for "reason and virtue" in Seventeenth and Eighteenth century theories of human nature
- Approbativeness and "pride" in political and economic thought
- The indictment of pride
- Some ethical reflections.