Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict Ruse Michael
Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict Ruse Michael An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary…
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Why We Hate: Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict Ruse Michael
An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social speciesWhy We Hate tackles a pressing issue of both longstanding interest and fresh relevance: why a social species like Homo sapiens should nevertheless be so hateful to itself. We discriminate on the basis of nationality, class, race, sexual orientation, religion, and gender. We go to war and are prejudiced against our fellow human beings.
In this book, prominent philosopher Michael Ruse looks at scientific understandings of human hatred, particularly Darwinian evolutionary theory. Why are humans at once so social and so hateful to each other? He finds the secret to this paradox in our tribal evolutionary past, when we moved ten thousand years ago from being hunter-gatherers to
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