Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature by Daniel Breyer

It is explored here without any mention of how the experiment has repeatedly failed replication and the entirely dubious methods used by Zimbardo throughout. For example, the Stanford Prison Experiment really leaps out at me. However the times when psychology was brought up uncritically led me to question other parts of the lectures. The broad range of subject is interesting and some of the topics that came up were genuinely thought provoking. The concepts and themes are not quite what I was expecting, it branches away from the more obvious forms of 'dark' behaviour and instead looks in to things that may cause every day stress such as grief or intrusive thoughts. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.Ī pleasurable listen, but neglects replication. Some are questions we have all asked ourselves: Why do so many people commit violence against others, why is there so much suffering in the world? Professor Breyer provides some fascinating potential answers to many of our darkest questions. This course is fueled by the power of questions, one of philosophy’s most potent tools. 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. 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.

But how can we be so sure? After all, we are all human. 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.

Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature by Daniel Breyer