Damasio on the humanity project
Sun, Apr 6, 2008The history of our civilization is, to some extent, the history of a persuasive effort to extend the best of “moral sentiments” to wider and wider circles of humanity, beyond the restrictions of the inner groups, eventually encompassing the whole of humanity. That we are far from finishing the job is easy to grasp just by reading the headlines.
(Antonio Damasio, Looking For Spinoza, Harcourt Books, 2003, p. 163)