Human Nature A Reader Author:Joel J. Kupperman Part I. Some Ancient Views of Human Nature — 1. Indian Philosophy: The Upanishads and Buddha-Katha Upanishad,The Buddhist Dhamapada — 2. Confucius-Analects — 3. Plato and Aristotle, and Freudian Echoes of Plato-Republic, Nicomachean Ethics, The Ego and the Id — 4. Mengzi and Xunzi: The Capacity for True Benevolence, Mengzi, Xunzi — 5. Human Imperfect... more »ion in the Judeo-Christian Tradition: From Adam to St. Augustine, The King James Bible, Confessions.Part II. Some Modern Views of Human Nature:
6. Hobbes, Leviathan
7. Butler and Hume: Inherent Tendencies toward Altruism, Sermon I, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book III: Of Morals
8. Kant: The Need for Reason to Dominate, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals
9. Marx and Alienation: Our Flawed Participation in Life, Alienated Labor, The Communist Manifesto
10. Sartre and Kierkegaard: Radical Incompleteness as the Human Lot, Being and Nothingness, The Sickness unto Death« less