
Ebook: The End of War
Author: John Horgan
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: McSweeney's Books
- City: San Francisco
- Language: English
- epub
War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent. War is not preordained, and furthermore, it should be thought of as a solvable, scientific problem--like curing Read more...
Living in wartime --
War is not innate --
You can't blame it all on a few bad apples --
Does resource scarcity make us fight? (No, not necessarily) --
Is war a cultural contageon? (Yes) --
Choosing peace --
The power of nonviolence --
In defense of free will --
Appendix : a brief prehistory of nonviolence.