Who Are We?: Theories of Human Nature

by Louis P. Pojman

Book Overview

What is our nature? What is this enigma that we call human? Who are we? Since the dawn of human history, people have exhibited wildly contradictory qualities: good and evil, love and hate, strength and weakness, kindness and cruelty, aggressiveness and pacifism, generosity and greed, courage and cowardice. Experiencing a sense of eternity in our hearts--but at the same time confined to temporal and spatial constraints--we seek to understand ourselves,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195179277
• ISBN13: 9780195179279
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"