Tuesday, July 31, 2018

The Neuroscience Of Cruelty And Evil (Not Much To Go On)

Today, biology is a powerful explanatory force for much human behaviour, though it alone cannot account for horror. Much as the neurosciences are an exciting new tool for human self-understanding, they will not explain away our brutishness. Causal accounts of the destruction that humans inflict on each other are best provided by political history – not science, nor metaphysics.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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