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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b256958.
- catalog created "1977.".
- catalog date "1977".
- catalog date "1977.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1977.".
- catalog description "1. Two models -- Part I. Plastic Man -- 2. Nature and nurture -- 3. The regularity of the moral world -- Part II. Autonomous Man -- 4. Life's short comedy -- 5. Personal identity and social identity -- 6. Elements of action -- Part III. Other Minds -- 7. The rational and the real -- 8. Ideal understanding -- 9. Envoi: actor and context".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 191-195.".
- catalog extent "vii, 198 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521215463 :052129181X".
- catalog issued "1977".
- catalog issued "1977.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "BD450 .H62".
- catalog subject "Human beings.".
- catalog subject "Social action.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Two models -- Part I. Plastic Man -- 2. Nature and nurture -- 3. The regularity of the moral world -- Part II. Autonomous Man -- 4. Life's short comedy -- 5. Personal identity and social identity -- 6. Elements of action -- Part III. Other Minds -- 7. The rational and the real -- 8. Ideal understanding -- 9. Envoi: actor and context".
- catalog title "Models of man : philosophical thoughts on social action / Martin Hollis.".
- catalog type "text".