Man Bites Man: on the Goodness and Shortcomings of Anthropos.

Man Bites Man: On the Goodness and Shortcomings of Anthropos The question of whether humanity itself is evil or not is one of the most fundamental aspects to any cultural world view, and at best a very divisive one. The two major representatives of this conflict within Christianity and in recent Western culture as a whole were Pelagius and Augustine. The former of these two thinkers advocated a world-view featuring man as capable of manufacturing …

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