{"product_id":"reflections-on-human-nature-9781421432434","title":"Reflections on Human Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003eLecture I. The Self-Appraisal of Man \u003cbr\u003eLecture II. The Theory of Human Nature in the American Constitution and the Method of Counterpoise\u003cbr\u003eLecture III. The Desires of the Self-Conscious Animal\u003cbr\u003eLecture IV. Approbativeness as the Universal, Distinctive, and Dominant Passion of Man \u003cbr\u003eLecture V. The \"Love of Praise\" as the Indispensable Substitute for \"Reason and Virtue\" in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theories of Human Nature \u003cbr\u003eLecture VI. Approbativeness and \"Pride\" in Political and Economic Thought \u003cbr\u003eLecture VII. The Indictment of Pride \u003cbr\u003eLecture VIII. Some Ethical Reflections\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359401312599,"sku":"9781421432434","price":37.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421432434.jpg?v=1754124539","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reflections-on-human-nature-9781421432434","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}