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This paper intends to defend the idea that the way we organize ourselves in society
(our laws, economy, politics) is based on a mistaken notion of human nature, originated
from philosophical assumptions that no longer make sense to the latest cientific
discoveries, especially in the field of biological sciences. For this, the contributions that
authors Frans De Waal, Richard Wrangham, Robert Sapolsky and Steven Pinker bring
from their respective fields to this debate will be presented. Then we will discuss how the
ideas of these authors converge and contrast each other, and finally conclude on which
conception of human nature survives after this violent clash of arguments.
Introduo:
DE WAAL, Frans. The most bipolar ape. The General Psychologist, Washington, v. 41,
n. 1, p.9-10, abr. 2006. Disponvel em: <http://www.apadivisions.org/division-
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DE WAAL, Frans. How Bad Biology Killed the Economy. RSA Journal, vol. 155, no. 5540,
2009, pp. 1015., www.jstor.org/stable/41379972.
MORE: Mecanismo online para referncias, verso 2.0. Florianpolis: UFSC Rexlab,
2013. Disponvel em: http://www.more.ufsc.br/ . Acesso em: 03 de Maio de 2017.
PINKER, Steven. The Blank Slate. The General Psychologist, Washington, v. 41, n. 1,
p.1-8, abr. 2006. Disponvel em: <http://www.apadivisions.org/division-
1/publications/newsletters/general/2006/04-issue.pdf>. Acesso em: 03 maio 2017.
SAPOLSKY, Robert M.. A natural history of peace. Foreign Affairs, Nova Iorque, v. 85, n.
1, p.1-7, Janeiro/Fevereiro 2006. Disponvel em:
<https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2006-01-01/natural-history-peace>. Acesso em: 03
maio 2017.
WRANGHAM, Richard. Killer Species. Daedalus, vol. 133, no. 4, 2004, pp. 2535.,
www.jstor.org/stable/20027942.