In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of Human uniqueness.
The result is a rich view of Human Nature that challenges some of today\'s most fashionable ideas about our species..
Ultimately, Scruton offers a new way of understanding how self-consciousness affects the question of how we should live.
And it lies outside the scope of modern materialist philosophy, even though it is a natural and not a supernatural fact.
It is the foundation of the moral sense, as well as of the aesthetic and religious conceptions through which we shape the Human world and endow it with meaning.
This fact is manifested in our emotions, interests, and relations.
The book begins with Kant\'s suggestion that we are distinguished by our ability to say "I"--by our sense of ourselves as the centers of self-conscious reflection.
Scruton develops and defends his account of Human Nature by ranging widely across intellectual history, from Plato and Averro s to Darwin and Wittgenstein.
We are not only Human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and rights.
Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that Human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects.
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of Human uniqueness
