On Human Decency
What is the nature of people? Are we good or evil? People throughout all of history have reflected deeply on these questions and recorded them in myriad philosophical and religious texts. More recently, since the age of enlightenment and the inauguration of the modern era, public intellectuals and scientists have weighed in, drawing from new-fashioned analytical tools to support their findings. The reams of data concerning human nature are so incredibly vast and span so many incommensurate disciplines, from religious…