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ON HUMAN NATURE - ROGER SCRUTON KARTONIERT (TB)

In this short book  acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and
radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists 
utilitarian moralists  and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel
Dennett  Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We
are not only human animals  we are also persons  in essential relation with other persons  and
bound to them by obligations and rights. Our world is a shared world  exhibiting freedom  value
and accountability  and to understand it we must address other people face to face and I to
I.Scruton develops and defends his account of human nature by ranging widely across
intellectual history  from Plato and Averroës to Darwin and Wittgenstein. The book begins with
Kant's suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say I--by our sense of ourselves
as the centers of self-conscious reflection. This fact is manifested in our emotions  interests
and relations. It is the foundation of the moral sense  as well as of the aesthetic and
religious conceptions through which we shape the human world and endow it with meaning. And it
lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy  even though it is a natural and not a
supernatural fact. Ultimately  Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness
affects the question of how we should live. The result is a rich view of human nature that
challenges some of today's most fashionable ideas about our species.

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