Add to ORKGHuman nature is a concept that transgresses the boundary between science and society and between fact and value. It is as much a political concept as it is a scientific one. This chapter will cover the politics of human nature by using evidence from history, anthropology and social psychology. The aim is to show that an important political function of the vernacular concept of human nature is social demarcation (inclusion/exclusion): it is involved in regulating who is ‘us’ and who is ‘them.’ It is a folk concept that is used for dehumanization, for denying (a) membership in humankind or (b) full humanness to certain people in order to include or exclude them from various forms of politically relevant aspects of human life, such as rights, ...
We are within nature and culture, conditioned simultaneously by genes and meanings. This form of our...
Kronfeldner M, Roughley N, Toepfer G. Recent work on human nature: Beyond traditional essences. Phil...
What does it mean to be human? Why do people dehumanize others (and sometimes themselves)? These que...
Human nature is a concept that transgresses the boundary between science and society and between fac...
The term ‘human nature’ can refer to different things in the world and fulfil different epistemic ro...
Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human ...
The Post-War rise in importance of the individual in international political theory, as evidenced by...
In this paper I examine a well-known articulation of the skeptical view of human nature, a paper by ...
We review a programme of research on the attribution of humanness to people, and the ways in which l...
Kronfeldner M. The Politics of Human Nature. In: Tibayrenc M, Ayala FJ, eds. On Human Nature: Biolog...
Human nature is something of a taboo on the left wing of contemporary political theory and scarcely ...
Human beings have a conception of themselves and of their (human) nature that sets them apart from t...
Human nature was until recently put together with essences of biological species, chemical elements,...
This article considers the approach to human nature implicit in four textbooks often used to introdu...
We are within nature and culture, conditioned simultaneously by genes and meanings. This form of our...
Kronfeldner M, Roughley N, Toepfer G. Recent work on human nature: Beyond traditional essences. Phil...
What does it mean to be human? Why do people dehumanize others (and sometimes themselves)? These que...
Human nature is a concept that transgresses the boundary between science and society and between fac...
The term ‘human nature’ can refer to different things in the world and fulfil different epistemic ro...
Human nature has always been a foundational issue for philosophy. What does it mean to have a human ...
The Post-War rise in importance of the individual in international political theory, as evidenced by...
In this paper I examine a well-known articulation of the skeptical view of human nature, a paper by ...
We review a programme of research on the attribution of humanness to people, and the ways in which l...
Kronfeldner M. The Politics of Human Nature. In: Tibayrenc M, Ayala FJ, eds. On Human Nature: Biolog...
Human nature is something of a taboo on the left wing of contemporary political theory and scarcely ...
Human beings have a conception of themselves and of their (human) nature that sets them apart from t...
Human nature was until recently put together with essences of biological species, chemical elements,...
This article considers the approach to human nature implicit in four textbooks often used to introdu...
We are within nature and culture, conditioned simultaneously by genes and meanings. This form of our...
Kronfeldner M, Roughley N, Toepfer G. Recent work on human nature: Beyond traditional essences. Phil...
What does it mean to be human? Why do people dehumanize others (and sometimes themselves)? These que...