Man Bites Man: on the Goodness and Shortcomings of Anthropos

The question of whether humanity itself is evil or not is one of the most fundamental
aspects to any cultural world view, and at best a very divisive one. The two major
representatives of this conflict within Christianity and in recent Western culture as a whole
were Pelagius and Augustine. The former of these two thinkers advocated a world-view
featuring man as capable of manufacturing for himself salvation; that humans could perfect
one another. …