Why War? by Richard Overy and Inheritance by Harvey Whitehouse: Profound mapping of belief and violence

Why War? by Richard Overy and Inheritance by Harvey Whitehouse: Profound mapping of belief and violence

Within the last few thousand years, our separate instincts for religiosity and morality have not always been linked. In fact, the link between them is culturally created and has changed dramatically during recorded history The French philosopher Alain Badiou has called this highly unequal, hierarchical social structure that humans have been living in since the dawn of recorded history “the Neolithic”. It comprises a small, violent elite in whose hands power and wealth are concentrated, a sizeable middle class who benefit from the system, and a majority of poor and dispossessed who spend their lives supporting the lifestyles of those above them.

His argument is nuanced and runs as follows. We humans have innate predispositions for both religiosity and morality. Our predispositions for religiosity include our tendency to believe in the supernatural, to regard certain people, places and objects as sacred, to believe in life after death and to ascribe supernatural design to nature, that is, to see the hand of a creator everywhere.

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