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Mutual Aid

Also known as Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

A work by Peter Kropotkin, first published in 1902

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  • What korrents draws from it

    That a pitiless war within each species is a condition of progress is unproved and unconfirmed by direct observation, What moves a person to help a neighbour whose house is on fire is a wide instinct of human solidarity, not love, Human society rests not on love or sympathy but on an awareness, even if only instinctive, of human solidarity …

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    Peter Kropotkin

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First published
19022
Claims on korrents
171

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. That a pitiless war within each species is a condition of progress is unproved and unconfirmed by direct observation (opens korrents.com)1

  2. What moves a person to help a neighbour whose house is on fire is a wide instinct of human solidarity, not love (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Human society rests not on love or sympathy but on an awareness, even if only instinctive, of human solidarity (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Life in society is what enables parrots to reach their very high, almost human intelligence and feelings (opens korrents.com)1

  5. The war of each against all is not the law of nature; mutual aid is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle (opens korrents.com)1

  6. If evolution rested mainly on the survival of the fittest through calamities, the animal world would go backward (opens korrents.com)1

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Sources

  1. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution, Q1498315 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)

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