Angels? Devils? Humans? Or what? Monsters?

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From the Rwanda Genocide

We are all capable of outstanding acts of compassion, altruism and sacrifice, but we are also capable of acts of unspeakable brutality and cruelty, often in one and the same person. It's as if we are two sides of one coin. Here is my collection of books that bear upon this baffling and terrifying aspect of human nature.  

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I may be adding my own additional notes. I have already included links to two of my pieces,

Why evolutionary science is vitally important

https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/why-evolutionary-science-is-vitally.html

and

A Rational Manifesto for One World

https://www.facebook.com/legacy/notes/510036885864781/

Feel free to add your own thoughts.





The books..





2002 The Better Angels of our nature - Stephen Pinker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature


        The title refers the last words of a speech by Abraham Lincoln.                  

  See https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/the-better-angels-of-our-        nature-president-lincoln's-first-inaugural-address

This title comes from a letter from Darwin to J.F.Hooker in 1856.

"What a book a Devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low & horridly cruel works of nature." https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk//DCP-LETT-1924.xml

And Darwin on race and gender -Letter https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwin-race-and-gender




2009 The Age of Empathy - Frans de Waal

https://www.amazon.com/Age-Empathy-Natures-Lessons-Society/dp/0307407772/ref=sr_1_1 


 

 2020 Survival of the Friendliest - Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods 

//www.amazon.com/Survival-Friendliest-Understanding-Rediscovering-Humanity/dp/0399590684/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

https://www.amazon.com/Humans-Perspectives-Evolution-World-Experts/dp/B0BK3VKKGC

 

From the Rwandan Genocide

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