Tip-Off #110 - The Survival of Compassion
"Sympathy has increased through natural selection." - Charles Darwin - How so? [ * ]
Often, profound thinkers are reduced to catchphrases: Nietzsche with "the death of God," Freud with his obsession with sex, and Charles Darwin with "survival of the fittest." This is particularly true in the case of Darwin. He was not what came to be called a "social Darwinist." Survival of the fittest was coined by the phil…
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