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Of Ingroups and Outgroups and Niall Ferguson
I’ve mentioned the work of historian Niall Ferguson in the context of what used to be called the Amity/Enmity Complex before. Simply put, the term was used to describe that ubiquitous tendency of our...
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Of Ingroups, Outgroups and Ideology
The set of innate human behavioral traits we associate with morality did not evolve in order to eventually promote and uphold ideological utopias. However, they did evolve to promote a dual system of...
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Morality and the Epiphany of Joshua Greene
The manifestations of morality are complex, but its origins are simple. Evolved behavioral predispositions are the ultimate reason for its existence. In all of its many facets and forms, it only...
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Ingroups and Outgroups Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere!
Every day in every way things are getting better and better. Well, all right, maybe that’s a stretch, but now and then, things actually do take a turn for the better, at least from my point of view....
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Ingroups and Outgroups: The Ukraine Data Stream
The notion that the suite of behavioral traits we associate with morality is dual in nature goes back at least a century. It was first formalized back in the 40′s by Sir Arthur Keith, who wrote, Human...
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A Fly in the “Human Flourishing” Soup: An Australian Data Point
One of the favorite hobbies of secular philosophers of late has been the fabrication of new and improved systems of morality. Perhaps the best known example is outlined in Sam Harris’ The Moral...
View ArticleIngroups and Outgroups and Ideologues
The Blank Slate is not over. True, behavioral scientists, intellectuals, and ideologues of all stripes now grudgingly admit something that has always been obvious to those Donald Trump refers to as...
View ArticleOf Ingroups and Outgroups and the Hatreds they Spawn
Did it ever strike you as odd that the end result of Communism, a philosophy that was supposed to usher in a paradise of human brotherhood, was the death of 100 million people, give or take, and the...
View ArticleOf Intellectuals, Ideology, and Ingroups
I’ve written much about the ingroup/outgroup aspect of human nature. It would be difficult to exaggerate its importance. If you’re not aware of it, you will never understand the species Homo sapiens....
View ArticleA New York Intellectual’s Unwitting Expose; Human Nature Among the Ideologues
Norman Podhoretz is one of the New York literati who once belonged to a group of leftist intellectuals he called the Family. He wrote a series of books, including Making It, Breaking Ranks, and...
View ArticleIngroups and Outgroups and Sir Arthur Keith – Adventures in the...
There is no more important aspect of human nature than our tendency to perceive others in terms of ingroups and outgroups. Without an awareness of its existence and its power it is impossible to...
View ArticleProcopius and the Amity/Enmity Complex
Sir Arthur Keith was the first to formulate a coherent theoretical explanation for the dual nature of human morality; our tendency to perceive others in terms of ingroups and outgroups, with different...
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