To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil Tapa blanda - 2021

Paperback / softback. New. <br /> In his 2010 book <i>What Is a Person?,</i> Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately “capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our ‘souls’ or ‘hearts.’” Building on Smith’s previous work, <i>To Flourish or Destruct</i> 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?<br />  <br /> Smith argues that our actions stem from a motivation to realize what he calls natural human goods: ends that are, by nature, constitutionally good for… Leer más

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2021. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 342 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of Chicago Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor