>Humanity is a force of nature Is there any philosophical

humanity as in human intelligence and will? or humanity as in altruism?

>>9766896
Unironically, Dawkins The Selfish Gene, Susan Blackmore The Meme Machine, and Levi-Strauss The Savage Mind.

>>9766919
The first one

>>9766935
How depressed are these going to make me?

>>9766945
Not very, unless you're a hopeless pseud. Look at their wikipedia pages. There are no moral conclusions to be drawn from these works, it's just an exploration of humans and their ideas and why they are so successful. Once you're done with them, move on to Rene Girard.

>>9766955
>There are no moral conclusions

Thats what i was worried about, thank you.

>>9766896
Not sure what you're getting at, but Nietzsche talked about humans and humanity as composed of forces. Deleuze's Nietzsche and philosophy systematizes the whole thing. Sloterdijk (Rage and Time) works on the political consequences of this approach and its historical (homeric) background.

Rand

The Encyclopedia of Human Thermodynamics:
http://www.eoht.info/

>>9766935
>Dawkins The Selfish Gene
It is ok if you are into neo-Darwinism
>Susan Blackmore The Meme Machine
Bunch of crap, it is by a paranormal and memetics is not taking serious by both linguistics, anthropology and beyond
>Levi-Strauss The Savage Mind
Don't know but likely to be outdaded

I suggest The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit