The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of
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In this highly provocative book scientist and psychologist Howard Bloom argues that despite our great intelligence, human behaviour is much closer to animal behaviour than we are comfortable to admit. All human groups - from street gangs to tribes to corporations to nations - expect individual members to conform to the 'good' of the whole, and this can often lead to unreasonable, unethical or indeed violent behaviour.
Bloom takes examples ranging from the ancient Greeks and Romans to communist China and contemporary America, and draws conclusions which will impress many, infuriate some and provoke all, as he argues that evil is a by product of nature's strategies for creation, woven into our most basic biological fabric.
Author: Howard Bloom
Format: Paperback, 480 pages, 155mm x 230mm
Published: 1995, Allen & Unwin, Australia
Genre: Sociology & Anthropology: Professional
In this highly provocative book scientist and psychologist Howard Bloom argues that despite our great intelligence, human behaviour is much closer to animal behaviour than we are comfortable to admit. All human groups - from street gangs to tribes to corporations to nations - expect individual members to conform to the 'good' of the whole, and this can often lead to unreasonable, unethical or indeed violent behaviour.
Bloom takes examples ranging from the ancient Greeks and Romans to communist China and contemporary America, and draws conclusions which will impress many, infuriate some and provoke all, as he argues that evil is a by product of nature's strategies for creation, woven into our most basic biological fabric.