Beyond Human Political Behavior To Post-Human Political Behavior/ Peter Baofu.
By: Baofu, Peter.
Publisher: New Delhi: Overseas press, 2017Description: 320p. 2v.ISBN: 9789383803989.Subject(s): Political behavior | Politics -- Philosophy | Social changeDDC classification: 300 Summary: Book Abstract Is political behavior really so significant that, as Aristotle wrote, “man is by nature a political animal”? This positive view on human political behavior can be contrasted with the opposing one by Will Vittery (2010), who critically rebuked that “this is a mistaken take on what is acute;naturalacute; to a human being. It suggests that simply by living in society is a political act, and argues that society is in itself natural―that man is almost biologically pre-determined to live in societies. Living in society does not necessarily make man political; it merely puts them in a political situation. Rather, society itself is completely man-made,…” Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), human political behavior (in relation to enthusiasm and apathy—as well as other dichotomies) is neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe, such that there is no enthusiasm without apathy (and vice versa), to be explained by the “enthusiasm-apathy principle” (and other ones) in “existential dialectics” (in Chapter Four). As a reminder, this challenge to the conventional debate does not mean that political behavior, as a field of study, is useless, or that those diverse fields (related to human political behavior)—such as sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, literary theory, religion, psychology, biology, and so on—should be rejected. (WK 2017) Needless to say, neither of these extreme views is reasonable.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book Abstract Is political behavior really so significant that, as Aristotle wrote, “man is by nature a political animal”? This positive view on human political behavior can be contrasted with the opposing one by Will Vittery (2010), who critically rebuked that “this is a mistaken take on what is acute;naturalacute; to a human being. It suggests that simply by living in society is a political act, and argues that society is in itself natural―that man is almost biologically pre-determined to live in societies. Living in society does not necessarily make man political; it merely puts them in a political situation. Rather, society itself is completely man-made,…” Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), human political behavior (in relation to enthusiasm and apathy—as well as other dichotomies) is neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe, such that there is no enthusiasm without apathy (and vice versa), to be explained by the “enthusiasm-apathy principle” (and other ones) in “existential dialectics” (in Chapter Four). As a reminder, this challenge to the conventional debate does not mean that political behavior, as a field of study, is useless, or that those diverse fields (related to human political behavior)—such as sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, literary theory, religion, psychology, biology, and so on—should be rejected. (WK 2017) Needless to say, neither of these extreme views is reasonable.
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