Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature by Daniel Breyer

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.