Natural Law and Human Nature by Father Joseph Koterski S.J.Requirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 179 MbOverview: Natural law is the idea that there is an objective moral order, grounded in essential humanity, that holds universal and permanent implications for the ways we should conduct ourselves as free and responsible human beings. These 24 in-depth lectures consider the […]
On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition by Jeffrey Paul Garcia (Journal of Ancient Judaism – Supplements)Requirements: .PDF reader, 1 mbOverview: This book is an analysis of early Jewish thought on human nature, specifically, the complex of characteristics that are understood to be universally innate, and/or God-given, to collective humanity and the […]
Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy by Justin E. H. SmithRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6.0 MBOverview: People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical […]
Understanding Human Nature: The Psychology of Personality by Alfred AdlerRequirements: .ePUB reader, 478kbOverview: Long-regarded as the handbook of Individual Psychology, Understanding Human Nature provides an accessible introduction to Adler’s key concepts, with which he moved away from his colleague Freud’s thinking. These include inferiority/ superiority complexes; memories and dreams; love marriage and children; and sexuality […]
Human Nature: The Categorial Framework by P. M. S. HackerRequirements: .ePUB reader, 603 KBOverview: 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, and the […]