CONTENTS

PREFACE

PART I: The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine 

• Chapter 1: The Official Theory
• Chapter 2: Silly Putty
• Chapter 3: The Last Wall to Fall
• Chapter 4: Culture Vultures
• Chapter 5: The Slate’s Last Stand

PART II: Fear and Loathing

• Chapter 6: Political Scientists
• Chapter 7: The Holy Trinity

PART III: Human Nature with a Human Face

• Chapter 8: The Fear of Inequality
• Chapter 9: The Fear of Imperfectibility
• Chapter 10: The Fear of Determinism
• Chapter 11: The Fear of Nihilism

PART IV: Know Thyself 

• Chapter 12: In Touch with Reality
• Chapter 13: Out of Our Depths
• Chapter 14: The Many Roots of Our Suffering
• Сhapter 15: The Sanctimonious Animal

PART V: Hot Buttons 

• Chapter 16: Politics
• Chapter 17: Violence
• Chapter 18: Gender
• Chapter 19: Children
• Chapter 20: The Arts

PART VI: The Voice of the Species 

Appendix: Donald E. Brown’s List of Human Univcrsals
notes
references
INDEX

Language: English
Format: PDF
Pages: 306
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