Great Division: Rebuilding Human Nature and Social Order (Frontier Observation of International Academia): Rebuilding Human Nature and Social Order

Author: Francis Fukuyama
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: This book aims to explore the relationship between material progress in human society and the development of human morality. The author argues that neither religion, politics, law, nor any other system can explain the phenomenon of the mismatch between material progress and moral development in human society. Issues such as individual hedonism, various forms of tyranny, rising crime rates, and the disintegration of the family are attributed by the author to fundamental biological tendencies in humans. Only by continuously adapting society to the realities of material progress can a relatively sound social order be established.