Sublime

Gorillas in the Mist.

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

Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.

they don’t know what could be the evolutionary benefit of such a phenomenon.

C. Stephen Evans