Name: Understanding the Dark Side of Human Nature
Released: 2019-07-19T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Daniel Breyer

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Professor Daniel Breyer explores many of the deepest, darkest questions that plague people's souls; by looking carefully into these dark aspects, one can better understand themself and appreciate their deep desire for meaning and purpose.

Documentary · 2019 · 31 min

Starring Daniel Breyer

EPISODE 1

What Do We Mean by the "Dark Side"?

People reserve the concept of the dark side for science fiction or psychopaths; the truth of human nature; how the dark side relates both to one's tendencies toward immorality and evil and to some of the human condition's most problematic aspects.

31 min · 1 June 2020
EPISODE 2

Our Fundamental Nature: Good or Evil?

Answering the question of whether people are fundamentally good, fundamentally evil or neither; an ancient debate between great Confucian philosophers; contemplating theories of human nature; how they frame a person's view of the world.

32 min · 1 June 2020
EPISODE 3

What Is Evil?

In order to fully examine the dark side of human nature, one needs to go deeper; questioning whether evil actually exists; what it means to call an action evil; exploring the ontological and conceptual aspects of evil by referencing great thinkers.

31 min · 1 June 2020
EPISODE 4

Moral Monsters and Evil Personhood

The line between bad and evil; what it takes to label a person evil; developing one's own views of when an individual is or is not evil by considering four models of evil, which are the Evildoer, the Dispositional, the Affect, and the Moral Monster.

32 min · 1 June 2020
EPISODE 5

Evil and Responsibility

The question of whether psychopaths responsible for their actions; considering how much responsibility evildoers can and should accept for their crimes, with the help of philosophers; ways by which they might not be so different from other people.

30 min · 1 June 2020
EPISODE 6

Sin: Original and Otherwise

How one would know if they are committing a sin; what its consequences would be; exploring the Christian concepts of sin, from the words of Jesus to Thomas Aquinas, Augustine and modern theologians; how they relate to a secular notion of evil.

34 min · 1 June 2020

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