UID:
almahu_9947415297302882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 198 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511621178 (ebook)
Content:
All social theorists and philosophers who seek to explain human action have a 'model of man', a metaphysical view of human nature. Some make man a plastic creature of nature and nurture, some present him as the autonomous creator of his social world, some offer a compromise. Each view needs its own theory of scientific knowledge calling for philosophic appraisal and the compromise sets harder puzzles than either. Passive accounts of man, for example, have a robust notion of causal explanation but cannot either find or dispense with a self to apply them to. Active accounts rightly stress an autonomous self, but lack a proper concept of explanation. Martin Hollis takes these tensions and contrasts from the thought of sociologists, economists, and psychologists. He then develops a model of his own - one which seeks to connect personal and social identity through an ambitious theory of rational action and a priori knowledge, proposing a sense in which men can act freely and still be a subject for scientific explanation.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Two models -- Part I. Plastic Man -- 2. Nature and nurture -- 3. The regularity of the moral world -- Part II. Autonomous Man -- 4. Life's short comedy -- 5. Personal identity and social identity -- 6. Elements of action -- Part III. Other Minds -- 7. The rational and the real -- 8. Ideal understanding -- 9. Envoi: actor and context.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521215466
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511621178
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