PACS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Robert Sapolsky, Margaret Mead, Animal Culture
27 Jan 2017
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Lecture 3: the question of human nature in the study of war & peace. War & things like conquest and imperialism have taken up a lot more of human history than. As long as there have been humans, there has been war. When violence occurs, it is nearly always accompanied by a justification. Nearly half of all adolescent girls think a husband is justified in hitting his partner unicef end-violence campaign. Human nature: the shared biological, psychological and genetic elements that determine human behaviour. Collectively they supercede or considerably weaken free will and choice. Collectively they cross all religious, culture, ethnic and even gendered lines. All humans. (can"t say that in human nature, men are more violent than women, that would be male nature. ) War is natural; corollary: peace is unnatural. Peace is natural; corollary: war is unnatural. Nature deals us the cards, how we play them determines whether there is war or peace (robert sapolsky)
