Human nature, cultural diversity, and the French Enlightenment /

Human nature, cultural diversity, and the French Enlightenment / Henry Vyverberg.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vyverberg, Henry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Subjects:
Enlightenment > France.
Philosophical anthropology > History > 18th century.
Ethnopsychology > France > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • From Nature to Human Nature
  • Nature as Fact or Norm
  • Natural Law and the Laws of Nature
  • Human Nature
  • The Uniformity of Human Nature
  • The Question
  • Reason and Passion
  • Instinctual Ethics and Religion
  • Uniformity Affirmed
  • The Diversity of Human Beings
  • The Role of Experience
  • Experiential Religion and Ethics
  • Uniformity Challenged
  • Physical and Moral Influences on National Character
  • Voyages and Travel
  • Climate
  • Institutions and Individuals
  • National Character
  • Understanding Cultural Diversity
  • The Question
  • Provisional Generalizations
  • A Cultural Miscellany
  • Russians and Others
  • Jews
  • Blacks and Native Americans
  • The Mildly Exotic East
  • The Islamic World
  • India
  • China and the Chinese Sage
  • The Waning of the Chinese Vogue
  • Historical Diversity
  • The Place of History
  • Voltaire and History
  • History in the Encyclopedia
  • The Case of Ancient Greece
  • Greece in the Enlightenment
  • Greece in the Encyclopedia
  • The Case of the Middle Ages
  • An Enlightenment Consensus?
  • The Middle Ages in the Encyclopedia.

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