Jeremy Griffith (1945-) is an Australian biologist who has
dedicated his life to bringing fully accountable, biological
understanding to the dilemma of the human condition--the underlying
issue in all human life of our species' extraordinary capacity for
what has been called 'good' and 'evil'. While it's undeniable that
humans are capable of great love and empathy, we also have an
unspeakable history of greed, hatred, rape, torture, murder and
war; a propensity for deeds so shocking and overwhelming that the
eternal question of 'Why?' has seemed depressingly inexplicable.
Even in our everyday behaviour, why, when the ideals of life are to
be cooperative, selfless and loving, are we so ruthlessly
competitive and selfish that human life has become all but
unbearable and our planet near destroyed? How could we humans
possibly be considered good when all the evidence seems to
unequivocally indicate that we are a deeply flawed, bad, even
'evil' species?
For most people, trying to think about this ultimate of questions
of whether we humans are fundamentally good or not has been an
unbearably self-confronting exercise. Indeed, the issue of the
human condition has been so depressing for virtually all humans
that only a rare few individuals have been sound and secure enough
in self to go anywhere near the subject. Nurtured by a sheltered
upbringing in the Australian bush (countryside), Jeremy is one of
those rare few. His soundness and resulting extraordinary integrity
and thus clarity of thought, coupled with his training in biology,
has enabled him to successfully grapple with this most foreboding
of all subjects of the human condition and produce the
breakthrough, human-behaviour-demystifying-and-ameliorating
explanation of it, which is presented in all his publications,
including his summa masterpiece, 2015 book, 'FREEDOM: The End Of
The Human Condition'
“A dense but often illuminating book that provides a hopeful look at what it means to be human.”
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