ABSTRACT
Robin Fox, professor of anthropology at Rutgers University and director of research at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, claimed that a rational ethics could be derived from human nature. There are certain innate elements in the human species, he stated, contradicting the behaviorist school of thinkers; and these innate elements include, for example, both altruism and aggression. By developing man's "natural behavior, " Fox claimed, a combination of hereditary potentials and inputs from the environment might enable us to remain free of those who would manipulate human beings, and he hoped thereby to create a more humane (i.e., human) world.
