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Examines the motivations intrinsic to this subjective experience: Why do people do what they do? How can we explain the activity that gives rise to all human social life and social structures? This book argues that our actions stem from a motivation to realize what he calls natural human goods: ends that are, by nature, and more.

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"Speaking in a voice of common sense and reasonableness, and using everyday language, Smith blasts apart most of the assumptions of modern social science and relativism and sets up an alternative scaffolding of moral realism and the theoretical position he calls Personalism. This book represents a major advance in sociology and more specifically within critical realism, which is gradually emerging as a full-fledged alternative in the social sciences. I am fundamentally convinced by this book." (George Steinmetz, University of Michigan)

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 3/23/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226231952, 978-0226231952
      ISBN10: 022623195X
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      Book Synopsis
      Examines the motivations intrinsic to this subjective experience: Why do people do what they do? How can we explain the activity that gives rise to all human social life and social structures? This book argues that our actions stem from a motivation to realize what he calls natural human goods: ends that are, by nature, and more.

      Trade Review
      "Speaking in a voice of common sense and reasonableness, and using everyday language, Smith blasts apart most of the assumptions of modern social science and relativism and sets up an alternative scaffolding of moral realism and the theoretical position he calls Personalism. This book represents a major advance in sociology and more specifically within critical realism, which is gradually emerging as a full-fledged alternative in the social sciences. I am fundamentally convinced by this book." (George Steinmetz, University of Michigan)

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