Homo novus : a human without illusions
Converging evidence from disciplinesincluding sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and human biology forces us toadopt a new idea of what it means to be a human. As cherished concepts such asfree will, naïve realism, humans as creation's crowning glory fall and our moral roots in ape group dynamics become clearer, we have to take leave of many concepts that have beencentral to definingour humanness. What emerges is a new human, the homo novus, a human being without illusions. Leading authors from many different fields explore these issues by addressing these illusions and providing evidence for the need to switch to this new idea of man, in spite of understandable reluctance to let go of our most beloved illusions
Print Book, English, ©2010
Springer, Berlin, ©2010