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Objectification Spectrum : Understanding and Transcending Our Diminishment and Dehumanization of Others /

What lies at the heart of humanity's capacity for evil? Any tenable answer to this age-old question must include an explanation of our penchant for objectifying and dehumanizing our fellow human beings. This book proposes a new model of objectification. Rather than offering a narrow definition...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rector, John (John M.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Yor : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. ONE Shadows on the Cave Wall: The Many Faces of Objectification
  • 1. Preliminaries
  • 2. Objectification: "A Slippery, Multiple Concept"
  • 3. Objectification Revisited: A Spectrum of Misapprehension
  • pt. TWO The Human Situation: Limitations and Possibilities
  • 4. Three Observations from Antiquity: Philosophia Perennis
  • 5. Unity Consciousness: Reality at the Deepest Level
  • pt. THREE What We Are: Dispositional Factors Contributing to Objectification
  • 6. The Paradoxical Nature of Language and Other Boundaries
  • 7. Boundaries of Self
  • 8. Narcissism
  • 9. The Ego (Part One): Its Nature and Manifestations
  • 10. The Ego (Part Two): Having versus Being
  • 11. Problems Stemming from Death Denial
  • pt. FOUR Who We Are: Situational Factors Contributing to Objectification
  • 12. Rising Awareness of Situational Power
  • 13. Situationally Induced Objectification: Three Relevant Classic Examples
  • 14. Situationally Induced Heroism: Momentary Transcendence of Objectification
  • pt. FIVE Pathways toward Transformation: Trails Leading Out of Plato's Cave
  • 15. The Problem of Enlightenment
  • 16. Theistic and Nontheistic Approaches to Transcending Objectification
  • 17. Objectification's Antidote: The Enlightenment Spectrum.