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Item Details
Title:
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MODELS OF MAN
PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL ACTION |
By: |
Martin Hollis |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£29.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
052129181X |
ISBN 13: |
9780521291811 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
23 June, 1977 |
Pages: |
208 |
Description: |
Martin Hollis develops a model of human nature which seeks to connect personal and social identity through an ambitious theory of rational action and a priori knowledge, proposing a sense in which men can act freely and still be a subject for scientific explanation. |
Synopsis: |
All social theorists and philosophers who seek to explain human action have a 'model of man', a metaphysical view of human nature. Some make man a plastic creature of nature and nurture, some present him as the autonomous creator of his social world, some offer a compromise. Each view needs its own theory of scientific knowledge calling for philosophic appraisal and the compromise sets harder puzzles than either. Passive accounts of man, for example, have a robust notion of causal explanation but cannot either find or dispense with a self to apply them to. Active accounts rightly stress an autonomous self, but lack a proper concept of explanation. Martin Hollis takes these tensions and contrasts from the thought of sociologists, economists, and psychologists. He then develops a model of his own - one which seeks to connect personal and social identity through an ambitious theory of rational action and a priori knowledge, proposing a sense in which men can act freely and still be a subject for scientific explanation. |
Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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