English
“How human beings can be altogether egoist, good and bad?”
Good or bad, self- or other-regarding? From Augustinian to Enlightment anthropology, our western cultural tradition proves to be unable to articulate these different ways of being. This paper critizes these two dominant paradigms of human nature in order to show that only a relational paradigm can make sense of the obvious fact that people are driven by different impulses, self-love, love for others and cruelty.