Reflections on Human Nature
Originally published in 1961. Arthur O. Lovejoy, beginning with his book The Great Chain of Being, helped usher in the discipline of the History of Ideas in America. In Reflections on Human Nature, Lovejoy devotes particular attention to influential figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Bishop Butler, and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Edition: | Johns Hopkins Press Paperback editions, 1968 |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422354206719 |
| Summary: | Originally published in 1961. Arthur O. Lovejoy, beginning with his book The Great Chain of Being, helped usher in the discipline of the History of Ideas in America. In Reflections on Human Nature, Lovejoy devotes particular attention to influential figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Bishop Butler, and Mandeville, tracing developments and changes in the concept of human nature through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He also discusses the theory of human nature held by the founders of the American Constitution, giving special attention to James Madison and the "Federalist Papers." |
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| Item Description: | Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1968, ©1961 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (vi, 275 pages)) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421432434 |
