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To flourish or destruct : a personalist theory of human goods, motivations, failure, and evil /

This title advances a personalist account of human beings to help us better understand and explain human persons, motivations, interests, and the social life to which they give rise. It offers an alternative to the standard views in contemporary sociology and most of the rest of social science. It s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Christian, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Critical realist personalism, some basics
  • Rethinking motivations for action
  • Against social situationism
  • Human nature and motivations in classical theory
  • On basic human goods, interests, and motivations
  • Toward a theory of flourishing
  • Understanding failure, destruction, and evil.