Chapter 9
Coherence and human nature
Are we a warlike species?
Article outline
- 9.1Nature vs. artifice
- 9.2Judaic antiquity
- 9.3Christian antiquity
- 9.4Greek antiquity
- 9.4.1Epicure (404–323 BC)
- 9.4.2Aristotle (384–322 BC)
- 9.4.3Plato (427–347 BC)
- 9.5The Enlightenment
- 9.5.1The chain of transmission
- 9.5.2Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
- 9.5.3J.-J. Rousseau (1712–1778)
- 9.5.4Adam Smith (1723–1790)
- a.The Theory of Moral Sentiment (1759)
- b.The Wealth of Nations (1776)
- 9.5.5Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- a.The Origin of Species (1859)
- b.The Descent of Man (1871)
- 9.6The post-Darwinian synthesis
- 9.6.1Overview
- 9.6.2Selfishness, altruism and natural selection
- 9.6.3Empathy and cooperation in primates and children
- 9.6.4The gender dimension
- 9.7Cooperation, morality and the in-out boundary
- 9.8Human nature and social coherence
- 9.9Closure
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Acknowledgements
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