Freedom - Jeremy Griffith
the end of the human condition
KORTE INHOUD
Why do we thinking, rational, imensely clever, supposedly sensible beings behave so ruthlessly, competitively and selfishly that human life has become all but unbearable and we have nearly destroyed our own planet? Are we a flawed species, some sort of evolutionary mistake, fundamentally worthless beings - or are we possibly the absolute heroes of the story of life on Earth? How are we to make sense of the awesome contradictions of the human condition?
Yes, how are we to truly understand ourselves - because without redeeming, biological understanding there can be no real peace for the human mind, no basis for the much-needed psychological rehabilitation and maturation of the human race.
Venturing, however, into the heart of darkness of this most foreboding of all frontiers for the human mind of the issue of the self, the issue of what the human condition really is, has been a near impossible task. When the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, 'O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall, frightful, sheer, no-ma...
Yes, how are we to truly understand ourselves - because without redeeming, biological understanding there can be no real peace for the human mind, no basis for the much-needed psychological rehabilitation and maturation of the human race.
Venturing, however, into the heart of darkness of this most foreboding of all frontiers for the human mind of the issue of the self, the issue of what the human condition really is, has been a near impossible task. When the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, 'O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall, frightful, sheer, no-ma...
