Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins
Author	Konrad Lorenz
Original title	Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit
Translator	Marjorie Kerr Wilson
Language	German
Publisher	Piper Verlag
Publication date	1973
Publication place	Germany
Published in English	1974
Pages	157

Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (German: Die acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit) is a book by the Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz. It is about major threats against humans that Lorenz sees in ingoing disregards of nature and in new and emerging technologies. The material originated as six lectures Lorenz held for Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1970, before a revised version was published as a book in 1973.^[1]^[2]

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The eight threats Lorenz warns about are:^[3]

Overpopulation
Crimes against nature
Obsessive technological development
Emotional atrophy
Genetic decay
Ruptured traditions
Indoctrination
Nuclear weaponry

References

^ Kalikow, Theo J. (1978). "Book Reviews : Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins. By Konrad Lorenz. Trans. Marjorie Kerr Wilson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1974. Pp. xiii + 107, $4.95". Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 8 (1): 99–101. doi:10.1177/004839317800800110.
^ Wynne-Edwards, Vero (1975). "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins, by Konrad Lorenz. Translated by Marjorie Latze. Methuen, £1.60". Oryx. 13 (1): 85–86. doi:10.1017/S0030605300013090.
^ "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 21 April 2024.

v t e Konrad Lorenz
Concepts	Fixed action pattern Hawk/goose effect
Works	King Solomon's Ring (1949) Man Meets Dog (1949) On Aggression (1963) Behind the Mirror (1973) Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973) The Waning of Humaneness (1983)
Institutions	Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology

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