TY - JOUR
T1 - Identity and Cooperative Social Behavior
T2 - Pseudospeciation or Human Integration?
AU - Bodenhausen, Galen V.
PY - 1991/1/1
Y1 - 1991/1/1
N2 - What is at stake here is nothing less than the realization of the fact and the obligation of man's specieshood. Great religious leaders have attempted to break through the resistances against this awareness, but their churches have tended to join rather than shun man's deep-seated conviction that some providence has made his tribe and race or class, caste, or religion “naturally” superior to others. This seems to be part of a psychosocial evolution by which he has developed into pseudo-species for man is not only apt to lose all sense of species, but also to turn on another subgroup with a ferocity generally alien to the “social” animal world.
AB - What is at stake here is nothing less than the realization of the fact and the obligation of man's specieshood. Great religious leaders have attempted to break through the resistances against this awareness, but their churches have tended to join rather than shun man's deep-seated conviction that some providence has made his tribe and race or class, caste, or religion “naturally” superior to others. This seems to be part of a psychosocial evolution by which he has developed into pseudo-species for man is not only apt to lose all sense of species, but also to turn on another subgroup with a ferocity generally alien to the “social” animal world.
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U2 - 10.1080/02604027.1991.9972229
DO - 10.1080/02604027.1991.9972229
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84963196668
SN - 0260-4027
VL - 31
SP - 95
EP - 106
JO - World Futures
JF - World Futures
IS - 2-4
ER -