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The Family and the Political Self

Laurence Thomas author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Feb '06

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The Family and the Political Self explores insights on the human desire to have children.

Having children is the most common aim among human beings. The Family and the Political Self aims to capture the insights that can be gleaned from taking this truth seriously. In this book Laurence Thomas argues that the best construal of the political self reflects this truth.Having children is the most common aim among human beings. The Family and the Political Self aims to capture the insights that can be gleaned from taking this truth seriously. One truth is that human beings may not be as self-interested as is commonly supposed. In this book Laurence Thomas argues that the best construal of the political self reflects this truth.

"Laurence Thomas's new book, The Family and the Political Self is a highly original, thought provoking, and movingly written meditation on the proposition that human beings are capable of and very frequently demonstrate that they actually have considerable altruism." - Bernard R. Boxill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ISBN: 9780521670111

Dimensions: 210mm x 148mm x 12mm

Weight: 270g

200 pages