num_pages: 352
description: “Provocative and richly textured. . . .Schwartz’s analyses of the inadequacies of contemporary scientific views of human nature are compelling, but the consequences are even more worthy of note.” ― Los Angeles Times Out of the investigations and speculations of contemporary science, a challenging view of human behavior and society has emerged and gained strength. It is a view that equates “human nature” utterly and unalterably with the pursuit of self-interest. Influenced by this view, people increasingly appeal to natural imperatives, instead of moral ones, to explain and justify their actions and those of others.
language: English
title: The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life
titlecomplete: The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 39
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company