Psychology and 'human nature'
Human beings Psychology sähkökirjat
Psychology Press
2000
EISBN 9780203171271
1. The ultimate biological motive : the evolutionary perspective.
2. Mental conflict : biological drives and social reality.
3. An inner world : cognitive psychology.
4. ... Not separable from the world : Skinner's radical behaviourism.
5. The individual consciousness : anxiously free in a meaningless world.
6. Social being : interacting, and presenting oneself as a person.
7. 'Human nature' as an outmoded cultural presupposition.
8. Conclusion.
Looks at the major schools of psychology and considers the claims or assumptions being made about 'human nature' and their position on the associated issues of consciousness, the self, the body, other people and the physical world.
2. Mental conflict : biological drives and social reality.
3. An inner world : cognitive psychology.
4. ... Not separable from the world : Skinner's radical behaviourism.
5. The individual consciousness : anxiously free in a meaningless world.
6. Social being : interacting, and presenting oneself as a person.
7. 'Human nature' as an outmoded cultural presupposition.
8. Conclusion.
Looks at the major schools of psychology and considers the claims or assumptions being made about 'human nature' and their position on the associated issues of consciousness, the self, the body, other people and the physical world.
