Category: Selfishness

Often, we are told that human nature tends to display traits of selfishness or embodies the attitude of ‘me first, you later’. Arthur Miller’s most reputed work ‘The Crucible’ explores the consequences and sheds light to the true extent of a human’s selfishness. The court-based drama focuses on the tales of the 1692 Salem Tragedy…

‘The Selfish Gene was written by Richard Dawkins and published in 1976 by Oxford University Press. Dawkins’ work has been hailed by many ever since and ‘The Selfish Gene has now been published in four different editions. This book has had several influences on the academic world; especially in the fields of evolution and of…

Selfishness has been a problem for a very long time. For instance, bullies stealing lunch money are selfish, the jocks who won’t let the newbie on the field, those stuck-up rich kids shown in movies, and especially the popular kids. All of mankind can be selfish, no matter how hard they try not to. There…