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United or Die: The Fair Society Model

Peter Corning

July 02, 2024

Welcome to Chapter Three in Dr. Peter Corning's Linked Essay Series Unite or Die. In Chapter Three, Dr. Corning examines our collective survival enterprise that are discussed in his 2011 book, The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice.

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World Views

The “Self-Made Man”: The Model for Our Future is Us!

Peter Corning

August 20, 2018

The debate about whether our species is in peril is over. We must honor our ancestors by emulating their survival strategy, and their success.

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World Views

The Social Contract: Who Needs It?

Peter Corning

May 22, 2018

Let’s begin with some political theory. Aristotle, in his great treatise, the Politics, concluded that there are, basically, only two different kinds of governments in terms of the outcomes for a society -- those that serve the common good, or the public interest, and those that have been co-opted to serve the self-interests of the people who hold political power.

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Science

Peter Corning: The Wages of Synergy

Manny Frishberg

March 28, 2018

Timing is everything, in science just as much as in horseracing or playing the stock market. If Alfred Russell Wallace had published before Darwin, we would talk about Wallace’s Theory of Evolution today.