{"product_id":"two-orientations-toward-human-nature-9780754655527","title":"Two Orientations Toward Human Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rony Guldmann\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Humanism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature. On the one hand, egoism is held to be our most powerful motive, playing a crucial cultural role by explaining the appeal of capitalism and providing a foundation for individualism. By contrast much of the continental intellectual tradition speaks of wholeness and alienation, seeing human nature not as self-interested but as herd-like. Guldmann argues that this schism reflects two diverging conceptions of human agency, and that the attempt to locate human nature somewhere along a continuum between egoism and altruism presupposes a misleading picture of what it is to be a human being. The second, 'continental' tradition is more illuminating because it recognizes that human beings are necessarily committed to some conception of the ultimately significant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46930300272791,"sku":"9780754655527","price":14551.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780754655527.webp?v=1771606162","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/two-orientations-toward-human-nature-9780754655527","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}