Reflections on Human Nature

Arthur O. Lovejoy was, at the time of his death in 1962, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. Among his many books are The Great Chain of Being, Essays in the History of Ideas, The Reason, the Understanding, and Time, and The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays.

• Preface Lecture I. The Self-Appraisal of Man Lecture II. The Theory of Human Nature in the American Constitution and the Method of CounterpoiseLecture III. The Desires of the Self-Conscious AnimalLecture IV. Approbativeness as the Universal, Distinctive, and Dominant Passion of Man Lecture V. The "Love of Praise" as the Indispensable Substitute for "Reason and Virtue" in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theories of Human Nature Lecture VI. Approbativeness and "Pride" in Political and Economic Thought Lecture VII. The Indictment of Pride Lecture VIII. Some Ethical ReflectionsIndex