Doug Dowd and his lecture notes
Below is an excerpt from chapter 1.
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Are we a hopeless species? Saying all this raises an important
set of questions concerning what is usually called human nature.
Neither implicitly nor explicitly is it suggested here that human beings
are naturally sane or reasonable, nor that they are the opposite.
We are, instead, both; but our lives are lived out in a shaping society--whether
that means family, school, or everything else; and it means all
of those. We have in us, that is, both positive and negative, constructive
and destructive possibilities: our species produced Einstein and Jack the
Ripper, Goethe and Hitler, Beethoven and Clinton.
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