Human Nature [Kindle Edition] 9781936599721

Conventional wisdom holds that the murder rate has plummeted since the Middle Ages; humankind is growing more peaceful a

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Human Nature [Kindle Edition]
9781936599721

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David Berlinski

Table of contents :
Introduction

I. VIOLENCE

1. The First World War

2. The Best of Times

3. The Cause of War

II. REASON

4. Relativism—A Fish Story

5. The Dangerous Discipline

6. Necessary Nature

7. Disgusting, No?

8. Majestic Ascent: Darwin on Trial

9. Memories of Ulaanbaatar

10. Inn Keepers

III. FALL

11. The Social Set

12. Godzooks

IV. PERSONALITIES

13. A Flower of Chivalry

14. Giuseppe Peano

15. Sonja Kovalevsky

16. A Logician’s Life

17. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

V. LANGUAGE

18. The Recovery of Case

VI. PLACE

19. Prague, 1998

20. Old Hose

21. Vienna, 1981

VII. INTERVIEWS

22. A Conversation with Le Figaro

23. A Conversation with Evolution News

Endnotes

Credits

Index