Stevenson + Haberman - Ten Theories of Human Nature (Skinner, Lorenz, Sartre, Freud, Marx, Kant, Plato, Confucius, Hinduism, Bible).pdf

Ten Theories of
Human Nature
Ten Theories of
Human Nature
Third Edition
LESLIE STEVENSON
DAVID L. HABERMAN
New York Oxford
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1998
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Stevenson, Leslie Forster.
Ten theories of human nature / Leslie Stevenson, David L.
Haberman. — 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Rev. and expanded ed. of: Seven theories of human nature, 2nd ed.
1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-512040-X (hardcover). — ISBN 0-19-512041-8
(pbk.) _
1. Philosophical
II. Stevenson, Lesl
m. Title. .
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To my daughters, Sonia and Lydia, who have, of
course, taught me much about
human nature
L. S.
To my parents, Reuben and Ruth,
in many ways the sources of my own
human nature
D. H.
Contents
Preface ix
PART I
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Rival Theories—and Critical Assessment
of Them 3
PART n
THREE ANCIENT RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Chapter 2 Confucianism: The Way of the Sages 25
by David L. Haberman
Chapter 3 Upanishadic Hinduism: Quest for 45
Ultimate Knowledge
by David L. Haberman
Cha