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Interview: Lawrence Rosenwald

- Lawrence Rosenwald & Mark-Alec Mellor Many thinkers, from Pascal to Marx to Foucault, have called the idea of human nature into question. Is the concept of any use to us in our efforts to create a more peaceful world?...

Interview with Lawrence Rosenwald

 

Mark-Alec Mellor: Many thinkers, from Pascal to Marx to Foucault, have called the idea of human nature into question. Is the concept of any use to us in our efforts to create a more peaceful world? For example, could we say that human nature must undergo a phylogenetic transformation—aided by natural selection (it has been suggested that women increasingly choose less violence-prone partners), by education, and by other social mechanisms—before perpetual peace becomes possible?

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