Human Nature
Subtitle: The Categorial Framework
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Blackwell Pub.
Published: August 24, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781405147286
Subjects: Topics in philosophy; Psychology; Philosophy; Anthropology - General; Mind & Body; Movements - Humanism; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Philosophical anthropology
Description: "This major new study, by one of the most penetrating and persistent critics of philosophical and scientific orthodoxy, returns to Aristotle in order to examine the salient categories in terms of which we think about ourselves and our nature. An overview of the concepts of substance, causation, power and agency provides the background for an investigation into teleology, rationality and explanations of behaviour in terms of reasons. This is the stage-set for the analysis of the concepts of mind, self, body and person."--BOOK JACKET.