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Models of Man: Philosophical Thoughts on Social Action Book

A study of the models philosophers and social theorists have used to explain human action, and a presentation of a new model connecting personal and social identity.Read More

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    All social theorists and philosophers who seek to explain human action have a 'model of man', a metaphysical view of human nature. Some make man a plastic creature of nature and nurture, some present him as the autonomous creator of his social world, some offer a compromise. Each view needs its own theory of scientific knowledge calling for philosophic appraisal and the compromise sets harder puzzles than either. Passive accounts of man, for example, have a robust notion of causal explanation but cannot either find or dispense with a self to apply them to. Active accounts rightly stress an autonomous self, but lack a proper concept of explanation. Martin Hollis takes these tensions and contrasts from the thought of sociologists, economists, and psychologists. He then develops a model of his own - one which seeks to connect personal and social identity through an ambitious theory of rational action and a priori knowledge, proposing a sense in which men can act freely and still be a subject for scientific explanation.

  • 052129181X
  • 9780521291811
  • Martin Hollis
  • 23 June 1977
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
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