What is Man? What is his nature? Where is he going? These are but some of the questions this book is trying to find answers to. They are questions that will take us on a fascinating intellectual journey encompassing politics, history, sociology, philosophy, religion, and science. Along the way you will encounter many great thinkers such as Aristotle and Nietzsche (to name but two) as well as be confronted by some of humanity's most sublime achievements and horrific failures. After reading this book, you will have a better understanding of humankind's potential for good and evil and our chances for survival and transcendence in the not too distant future.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Global Ape Between Extinction and Transcendence
- Chapter One: The Fiery People
- Chapter Two: Human Behavior, War, and The State
- Chapter Three: Global Elements of Genocide: The Scholars Speak
- Chapter Four: Enlightenment, Modernity, and Genocide Reconsidered
- Chapter Five: War's Dialectic?
- Chapter Six: All of Caesar's Men
- Chapter Seven: The Evolution of Leadership and Social Dominance
- Chapter Eight: The Babbling Ape
- Chapter Nine: The Religious Ape: Homo Religiosus
- Chapter Ten: The Shifting Sands of Science and Technology
- Chapter Eleven: Moral and Unfree or On the Moral Graciousness of Fatalism
- Chapter Twelve: The Global Ape: Between Transcendence and Extinction
- Bibliography