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[Front Matter]
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[Title Page]
[Copyright]
[Dedication]
Contents
Book I: The Parable of the Tribes
Chapter One: The Parable of the Tribes
1. Introduction
2. Understanding Change
3. The Common Sense: Selection by Human Choice
4. The Rube Goldberg Problem: A Critique of the Commonsense Theory
5. Toward a Bigger Vision
6. The Way of Life
7. The Emergence of Culture
8. The Breakthrough to Civilization
9. The Struggle for Power
10. The Selection for Power: The Parable of the Tribes
11. The Reign of Power
12. Power versus Choice in Social Evolution
13. A Tragic View of Human Destiny
14. Hope
Chapter Two: The Theft of Human Choice
1. Unfree Choices
2. Two Great Waves of Change
A. The Spread of Civilization
B. The Modernization of Archaic Civilizations
3. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: The Nonalternatives of the Parable of the Tribes
A. Withdrawal
B. Destruction
C. Transformation
D. Imitation
4. Qualifications: Limits on the Transformative Effects of Conquest
5. Choosing the Choosers: The Historymakers
6. The Mother of Invention
A. Introduction: Beyond Selection
B. Leaving the Primitive State
C. The Escalator of Civilization
D. Conclusion: Innovation as Directed by Human Purpose
Chapter Three: Shaped by Power
Introduction
1. Red Sky at Morning: The Dawn of Civilization and the Rise of Warfare
2. The Evolution toward Larger Societies
3. The Evolution toward More Complex Societies
4. Evolution toward More Effective Central Control
A. Unity of Purpose
B. Coordination
C. Sacrifice
5. Reflections on the Disadvantages of Centralization
A. Ignorance
B. Lack of Motivation
C. Stagnation
6. The Adrenalin Society
7. Common Denominator: The Homogenizing of Cultures
Epilogue to Book 1: Power and Choice in Our Times
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Book II: The Natural and the Unnatural
Introduction: The Natural and the Unnatural
Part One: A House Divided: The Human Condition in Civilization
Prologue: A Zoo Story
Chapter Four: Human Nature and the Evaluation of Civilization
1. Out of the Cold: Beyond Value Neutrality
2. A Theory of Natural Values
3. The Question of Human Nature
A. The “Uniqueness Is Essence” Assumption
B. Cultural Diversity as Proof of Indeterminacy
4. Eden: The Natural Environment
5. The Fatal Mismatch
6. The Original Sinner: Evaluating Human Nature
Chapter Five: Power and the Psychological Evolution of Civilized Man
1. The Re-creation of Man
2. Fighting Mad
The Seeds of Rage
Channeling Destructive Energies
The Faces of Human Aggression in the Evolving Reign of Power
3. Hierarchy and the Lust for Power
4. Under the Yoke: Harnessing Human Energies
The Displacement of Pleasure by Work
The Displacement of the Present by the Future
The Human Cost of Production
Afterword: The Fighting Machine
5. The War Within: Moral Internalization and the Social Order
6. Unreasonable Reason
The Powers of Reason
Is It Progress?
The Loss of Meaning and Value
Impersonality
7. Conclusion: Possibilities
Part Two: Power and the Loss of Wholeness
Chapter Six: Systems of Nature and of Civilization
1. Synergy and Viability: Dimensions of Wholeness
2. Nature and Civilization Contrasted
A. Natural Systems
B. The Systems of Civilization
3. The Turning Point: Biological Evolution versus Social Evolution
Introduction: The Problem of Discontinuity
Different Mechanisms of Change
Evolving Different Kinds of Structure
The Agony of the Torn
4. Artificial Wholeness: Justice as the Antidote for Power
The Restraint of Power
Justice as Synergy
Limits to the Scope of Justice
Justice and the Future
Chapter Seven: The Parable of the Tribes and the Loss of Wholeness
1. Man’s Dominion: Power and the Degradation of the Ecosystem
A. Paradise Lost
B. The Evolution of Technology and the Parable of the Tribes
2. The State of Unnature: The Problems of the Intersocietal System
Horseman of the Apocalypse
Everybody Loses
Evil and Beyond
3. Men Are Not Ants: The Problem of Power in the Body Politic
A. Intrasocietal Analogue of the Parable of the Tribes
B. The Roots of Injustice: A Critique of the Marxist View
C. Modern Reversal of Trends’?
D. Wheels within Wheels: The Class Struggle and the Evolution of Civilization
4. The Market as a Power System: A Critique of the Capitalist Economy
A. Introduction
B. Market Justice: Questions of Class Exploitation .
C. Market Atomism and the Loss of Social Synergy
D. Moral Confusion and Choice in the Market Economy
E. Conclusion
5. House Divided Revisited
6. The Death of the Unnatural
The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Apocalypse Now?
Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Therefore Choose Life
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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