THE WESTERN ILLUSION OF HUMAN NATURE

THE WESTERN ILLUSION OF HUMAN NATURE

For more than two millennia, the peoples called "Western" have been haunted by the specter of their own inner being: an apparition of human nature so avaricious and contentious that, unless it is somehow governed, it will reduce society to anarchy. Sahlins claims that it is a specifically...

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Aquinas, Thomas (1225-1274)
Behavior
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Politics
Social life & customs
Thucydides (471-400 BC)
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