Sublime

view. For instance, in the mid-1700s David Hume wrote a lot about the “natural benevolence” of human beings. And a century later, even Charles Darwin himself attributed an “instinct of sympathy” to our species. But

can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?

can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?

Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”