To flourish or destruct: a personalist theory of human goods, motivations, failure, and evil

Journal of Critical Realism 16 (4):423-430 (2017)
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Christian Smith’s To Flourish or Destruct is a thorough, sustained, and impassioned argument for what the author calls ‘critical realist personalism’. This is an ontologically based theory of the p...

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10.1080/14767430.2017.1327185

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