Correlations between Theories of Human Nature and Politics: A Search for a Relationship in the Work of Dewey and Rawls

Abstract

This thesis explores the intuitive notion that theories of human nature and political thinking in any given philosophy are closely and necessarily related in some way. Given the propensity for system building displayed throughout the history of philosophy, it would not be surprising to find connections, especially in the writings of the most notorious system builders. Yet the massive structures of interconnectedness often rest on strained, awkward, obscure, or ultimately difficult to accept relationships and premises; in this essay, such grandly inclusive projects are left aside, and more modest goals are set in that a special and systematic relationship is only being explored between these two areas. Keywords: Human relations, Social psychology, Cultures(Biology), Behavior(Psychology), Societies.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 08, 1988
Accession Number
ADA197215

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  • Joseph C. Ficarrotta

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