This cross-cultural approach will help you see humanity as fully as possible from many perspectives, better allowing for progress toward finding answers that can apply across cultures and times. Thinkers from across the world and in many different eras have considered the dark side of human nature, and that's why this course will adopt a cross-cultural approach, investigating perspectives from many different traditions-Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and secular. But the truth is, if we don't face the totality of what it means to be human, we can never fully understand ourselves or fully appreciate our deep desire for meaning and purpose in our lives. For many of us, it may be easier to simply avoid looking into the darker aspects of ourselves and our world-the suffering we see everywhere around us, from real world events to the entertainment we consume. The dark side of our nature is our mysterious and fragile underbelly-our negative, but all too human, side. But how can we be so sure? After all, we are all human.In Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature, Professor Daniel Breyer takes us on a fascinating philosophical journey into many of the deepest and darkest questions that have engaged humanity for millennia. And each time it happens, before we know anything about the circumstances, we are already sure of one thing: We are nothing like that perpetrator. Hardly a day goes by that we don't hear about someone committing a violent, reprehensible, even evil, act.
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