Studies to Support Paul's Book Human Sin or Social Sin

The following studies support Human Sin or Social Sin:

1. Edward O. Wilson,
   -Of Ants and Men (PBS, DVD);
   -The Social Conquest of Earth;
   -The Meaning of Human Existence;
   -Darwin's Bridge: Uniting the Sciences and Humanities (Oxford);
   -The Origins of Creativity;
   -Genesis: The Deep Origins of Societies
   
2. Jane Goodall, Jane (National Geographic, DVD)
3. Robert Sapolsky, Behave (Penguin)
4. David M. Buss,
   -The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology, 2nd edition (Wiley, 2015);
   -Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, 6th edition (Routledge, 2019)
5. Samuel Bowles, The Cooperative Species (Princeton University Press)
6. Mark Bauerlein, The State of the American Mind
7. Pascal Boyer, Minds Make Societies (Yale University Press)
8. Richard Wrangham, Chimpanzees and Human Evolution (Harvard University Press)
9. Jonathan Haidt,
   -The Righteous Mind (Vintage);
   -The Coddling of the American Mind (Penguin) [The best introduction to the method]
10. Frans de Waal, Mama's Last Hug (Norton)
11. Laura Jacobs, Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet (Basic Books)
12. Mark Foster Gage, ed., Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy (MIT)
13. R. Jay Wallace, The Moral Nexus (Princeton University Press)
14. Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin Press, 2019)
15. Martha Nussbaum, The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal (Harvard University Press, 2019).
16. Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
17. Eric Nelson, The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God (Harvard University Press, 2019)
18. Anthony T. Kronman, The Assault on American Excellence (Free Press, 2019)
19. Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019)
20. Craig Stanford, The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First Century Portrait of Our Closest Living Kin (Harvard University Press, 2018)
21. Adam Clark Arcadi, Wild Chimpanzees: Social Behavior of an Endangered Species (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
22. Jane Goodall, Jane (DVD, National Geographic, 2018)
23. William R. Braun “Cutting Through the Noise: Operagoing as a Mindful Experience,” (Opera News, September, 2019)
24. Ellen Winner, How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2019)
25. Heather MacDonald, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Currupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (St. Martin’s Press, 2018)
26. Scott Allan, Davide Gasparotto, Peter Bjorn Kerber, & Anne T. Woollett, Masterpieces of Painting: J. Paul Getty (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019)
27. Kenneth Lapatin, Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa de Papiri at Hurculaneum (J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019)
28. Ben Shapiro, The Right Side of History (Broadside Books, 2019)
29. Neil Gorsuch, A Republic, If You Can Keep It (Crown Forum, 2019)
30. Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis (Little Brown and Company, 2019)
31. William Wallace, Michelangelo, God’s Architect (Princeton University Press, 2019)
32. Christopher Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
33. Ezra Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
34. David Thomas, Sleeping With Strangers: How Movies Shaped Desire (Knopf, 1919)
35. Geoffrey Miller, Virtue Signaling: Essays on Darwinian Politics & Free Speech, (Cambrian Moon, 1 edition, 2019)

Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, New York: Penguin Press, 2019.

This is a survey of cross-cultural political organizations that show how a subject-centered model for social psychology, like the one I and Hobbes describe, can unify the larger dimensions of political history. A very suggestive subheading is: “We Are All Hobbesians Now.”

Crucially, the authors describe what they call “The Cage of Norms,” which expresses itself in spontaneous social pressure against individuals’ power aspirations. It is easy to see their indebtedness to my concept of the socialized seven deadly sins. The authors also make a brief reference to the “deepest state” and the context of the “cage of norms” is close at hand. In personal communications I made, I describe the Left as having been driven during the last two centuries by zero sum thinking, and these authors also use this concept in their concluding chapters on the challenges facing the West today.

Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society. Boston: Little, Brown Spark, 2019. Christakis describes how human social organizations are universal and even extend to other species, and he describes the science-based moral contexts of human diversity. Anthropologist Laura Betzig asked rhetorically, “Will we one day live in hives?” Commenting on this, a graduate student said to me, “Cities are hives.”

Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis, Boston: Little Brown and Company, 2019. This very subtle and fascinating work shows how different types of power dynamics can cause unconscious, long-term shifts in notions of national identity, sovereignty, and class.

Craig Stanford, The New Chimpanzee: A Twenty-First Century Portrait of Our Closest Living Kin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. Adam Clark Arcadi, Wild Chimpanzees: Social Behavior of an Endangered Species. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

These two studies show evidence for group selection for the evolution of altruism.

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