The Origins of Virtue, (Paperback)

from TeaTimeCoder

I enjoyed the book but disagree with the author on the conclusions since unlike the author I'm not a anarcho-socialist. It's extremely biased but what is presented is mostly fact and history, even ...

from mbmackay

Argues that the selfish gene can lead to a virtuous & cooperative citizen. Interesting stuff. Read Samoa Nov 2003

from miketroll

A modern classic. Darwinian evolution is often misunderstood as a bleak doctrine of nature red in tooth and claw, in which altruism, compassion and kindness play no part. Matt Ridley's brilliantly ...

from Noisy

This book is like being run over by a steam-roller. It's a very polite steam-roller that goes forward; then backs off a bit and says sorry before trundling forward further than it went last time. A...

from Devil_llama

This was my first introduction to the author, and it set a pattern that hasn't been relieved by further encounters. The author lacks integrity, willing to indulge in quote-mining to pretend that th...