The philosophy of human nature /
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| Author / Creator: | Kainz, Howard P. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2008. |
| Description: | xvii, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7198575 |
Table of Contents:
- The "difference" question
- Some philosophical approaches
- Critique of these historical approaches
- Distinctive human conceit?
- The importance of being self-conscious
- Are there any distinctively human instincts?
- Some historical positions
- Complex instincts in humans?
- Human cognitive instinct
- Human behavioral instinct
- Can personality traits and intelligence be inherited?
- Heredity
- The past and present of genetics
- The problem of isolating variables
- Contemporary areas of controversy
- The political paradox : some ironies in democracy
- Dobzhansky's social paradox
- Are there any significant sex-related personality characteristics?
- Biological differentiation of the sexes
- Psychological differences
- Historical overview of theories about M/F differences
- Some socio-political considerations
- Possible implications of M/F brain differentials
- The future of human evolution
- Social and cultural evolution
- Patterns in the past
- Projections of the future
- Contemporary harbingers of a third stage
- Is human nature a unity or a duality?
- Experiential aspects
- Positions taken in the history of philosophy
- Reflections on a metaphysical paradox
- Historical philosophical positions emphasizing the unity-in-duality of personality
- Mind-body causality and the problem of the "prime analogate"
- Human freedom
- materialists and the idea of freedom
- Consequences of the rejection of the idea of freedom
- Clarification of terms
- Conceptual analysis
- Human development
- Problems connected with this analysis
- Procedural aspects
- The stages of consciousness, infancy to adolescence
- Maturity
- Psychological maturity
- Existential maturity
- The relationship to physical goods
- The relationship to others
- The relationship to oneself
- Objective maturity versus relative maturity
- The nature of love
- Cosmic love?
- Interpersonal love : cultural influences
- Philosophers and love
- Love and its opposites (what love is not)
- What love is
- The types of love
- Philosophy and the paranormal
- Empirical research on paranormal phenomena
- Research methodologies
- Major types of PSI
- Philosophical issues connected with PSI
- Survival after death
- Initial prejudices
- The experiential evidence : NDEs?
- Philosophical analysis
- Conclusions regarding immortality
- Immortality versus resurrection
- Special problems with resurrection
- A final possibility.