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Human Development and Human Life

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Philosophy Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-34066-1

ISBN: 978-3-319-34065-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jun 15, 2016

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Introduction

Slote, Michael

Pages: 1 –3

[This introductory chapter summarizes what is to follow. It indicates that the sense of human development indicated in the book’s title is a notion of overall development, rather than anything specifically to do, say, with one or another form of cognitive development. The development pictured is...
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Rethinking the Life Cycle

Slote, Michael

Pages: 5 –17

[Carol Gilligan criticized Erik Erikson’s account of the human life cycle for its sexist assumptions, but never offered an alternative general account. This can be done, however, by drawing on recent ideas about balancing career and family. An adult identity is forged through a “choice” of how...
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Picturing Human Life

Slote, Michael

Pages: 19 –52

[Focusing on recent discussions of psychological egoism and altruism can help us toward a general picture of what human lives are like. Much of human motivation is neither egoistic nor a altruistic, but nonetheless depends on instincts or basic desires that treat other people or things outside us...

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