On Evil

Alan Wolfe reviews Terry Eagleton's new book:

"We cannot pass reliable moral judgment on the human species," heargues, "because we have never been able to observe it other than indesperately deformed conditions." Lift the burdens imposed by scarcityand poverty, and then we will find that human beings need not killothers to make up for their moral and psychological failings. Thisseems to me, if I may be so crude as to repair to the language ofsocial science, a non-falsifiable proposition...