June 2, 2000
Understanding the Evil That Men Do
In Vienna in the 1920's, the followers of Freud and Adler debated whether sex or power is the fundamental human motivation. That debate continues today, with different contestants. On the one side, we have neo-Darwinian evolutionary psychologists, who think that reproductive fitness is the ultimate explanation of all human behavior. On the other, we have neo-Nietzschean feminists and postmodernists, who think that the will to power is the main human motive. The
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