A Biological, Psychological and Philosophical Approach to Human Nature and Radicalism

After numerous catastrophic terrorist events in the first decades of the 21st century, many governments have attempted to mitigate extreme and violent radicalism without much success. The purpose of this book is to generate possible solutions to human radicalism. However, this is not where its uniqueness lies. The uniqueness is where these solutions come from: human nature reexamined in biological and philosophical terms. Human nature within a peculiar natural world can lead to acts of terrorism. This unique combination of biology and Spinoza’s philosophy creates a particular vision: the “Spinozist” view of human nature and radicalism. This vision suggests many psycho-sociogenic solutions to mitigate violent radicalism.
Although experts may be interested in this unusual approach, the book is designed to give non-experts in clinical medicine, molecular biology, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, and sociology access to related ideas, enriching the debate and providing practical solutions to radicalism.