To flourish or destruct : a personalist theory of human goods, motivations, failure, and evil / Chri...
To flourish or destruct : a personalist theory of human goods, motivations, failure, and evil / Chri...
To flourish or destruct : a personalist theory of human goods, motivations, failure, and evil / Christian Smith.
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Chicago London University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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G 2016/1660
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English
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x, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
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still image
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Critical realist personalism, some basics -- Rethinking motivations for action -- Against social situationism -- Human nature and motivations in classical theory -- On basic human goods, interests, and motivations -- Toward a theory of flourishing -- Understanding failure, destruction, and evil.
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Chicago London University of Chicago Press, 2015.
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Illinois
Date Published
2015.
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In his 2010 book What is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, curcial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our 's...
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To flourish or destruct : a personalist theory of human goods, motivations, failure, and evil / Christian Smith.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Also issued online.
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G 2016/1660
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74VKVpQ05ExZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVpQ05ExZ
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ISBN
022623195X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226231952 (cloth : alkaline paper)
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153.8
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991023988305502626
