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view. For instance, in the mid-1700s David Hume wrote a lot about the “natural benevolence” of human beings. And a century later, even Charles Darwin himself attributed an “instinct of sympathy” to our species. But
Dalai Lama • The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
Part III is about the third principle: Morality binds and blinds. The central metaphor of these four chapters is that human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee. Human nature was produced by natural selection working at two levels simultaneously. Individuals compete with individuals within every group, and we are the descendants of primat
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
This, in a nutshell, is the ascent of humanity that Jacob Bronowski was referring to in his classic The Ascent of Man, after which the present volume is ironically named.
Charles Eisenstein • The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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