Human Nature

No one who cares about the human future can afford to ignore Edward O. Wilson's On Human Nature, Revised Edition, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Wilson presents a philosophy that cuts across the usual categories of conservative, liberal, or radical thought. In systematically applying the modern theory of natural selection to human society, he arrives at conclusions far removed from the social Darwinist legacy of the last century. Human diversity is to be treasured, not merely tolerated, he argues.

Natural law is the idea that there is an objective moral order, grounded in essential humanity, that holds universal and permanent implications for the ways we should conduct ourselves as free and responsible human beings.