“We humans don’t suffer from a genetic-opportunism-driven ‘animal condition’, but a conscious-mind-based, psychologically troubled HUMAN CONDITION.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“Essentially, what has happened is that humans have become so habituated to living in Plato’s dark cave of denial that when finally given the means to exit the cave and stand in the warm, healing sunshine of self-understanding,”
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
“The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals”
― The Descent of Man
― The Descent of Man
“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!
― THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!
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