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Which is the position of the authors?
{ 1 } - One cannot arrive at a realistic understanding of what it is to be human by empirical induction.
{ 2 } - Ethical thinking is a projection of a priori principles on real life.
{ 3 } - Their idea of human nature specifies the intrinsic teleology of humanness, its basic needs in their hierarchy.
{ 4 } - They do not derive moral principles from the system of human needs.
{ 5 } - Their concept of human nature does not refer to the nexus of characteristics, taken in their organic unity, which are empirically common to all members of the human species as a relatively stable community.
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Which is the position of the authors?
{ 1 } - One cannot arrive at a realistic understanding of what it is to be human by empirical induction.
{ 2 } - Ethical thinking is a projection of a priori principles on real life.
{ 3 } - Their idea of human nature specifies the intrinsic teleology of humanness, its basic needs in their hierarchy.
{ 4 } - They do not derive moral principles from the system of human needs.
{ 5 } - Their concept of human nature does not refer to the nexus of characteristics, taken in their organic unity, which are empirically common to all members of the human species as a relatively stable community.
On the contrary, they claim that a realistic, though imperfect, understanding is possible in this way. See p. 180.
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Which is the position of the authors?
{ 1 } - One cannot arrive at a realistic understanding of what it is to be human by empirical induction.
{ 2 } - Ethical thinking is a projection of a priori principles on real life.
{ 3 } - Their idea of human nature specifies the intrinsic teleology of humanness, its basic needs in their hierarchy.
{ 4 } - They do not derive moral principles from the system of human needs.
{ 5 } - Their concept of human nature does not refer to the nexus of characteristics, taken in their organic unity, which are empirically common to all members of the human species as a relatively stable community.
On the contrary, they deny this, asserting that their position is realist. See p. 180.
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Which is the position of the authors?
{ 1 } - One cannot arrive at a realistic understanding of what it is to be human by empirical induction.
{ 2 } - Ethical thinking is a projection of a priori principles on real life.
{ 3 } - Their idea of human nature specifies the intrinsic teleology of humanness, its basic needs in their hierarchy.
{ 4 } - They do not derive moral principles from the system of human needs.
{ 5 } - Their concept of human nature does not refer to the nexus of characteristics, taken in their organic unity, which are empirically common to all members of the human species as a relatively stable community.
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Which is the position of the authors?
{ 1 } - One cannot arrive at a realistic understanding of what it is to be human by empirical induction.
{ 2 } - Ethical thinking is a projection of a priori principles on real life.
{ 3 } - Their idea of human nature specifies the intrinsic teleology of humanness, its basic needs in their hierarchy.
{ 4 } - They do not derive moral principles from the system of human needs.
{ 5 } - Their concept of human nature does not refer to the nexus of characteristics, taken in their organic unity, which are empirically common to all members of the human species as a relatively stable community.
See p. 180.
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Which is the position of the authors?
{ 1 } - One cannot arrive at a realistic understanding of what it is to be human by empirical induction.
{ 2 } - Ethical thinking is a projection of a priori principles on real life.
{ 3 } - Their idea of human nature specifies the intrinsic teleology of humanness, its basic needs in their hierarchy.
{ 4 } - They do not derive moral principles from the system of human needs.
{ 5 } - Their concept of human nature does not refer to the nexus of characteristics, taken in their organic unity, which are empirically common to all members of the human species as a relatively stable community.
This is their concept of human nature. See p. 180.
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