Reflections on Human Nature

by Arthur O. Lovejoy

Book Overview

Originally published in 1961. Arthur O. Lovejoy, beginning with his book The Great Chain of Being, helped usher in the discipline of the History of Ideas in America. In Reflections on Human Nature, Lovejoy devotes particular attention to influential figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Bishop Butler, and Mandeville, tracing developments and changes in the concept of human nature through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421432439
• ISBN13: 9781421432434
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"