ABSTRACT
The basic inspiration for the outlook on human nature is a core insight of Chinese philosophy that human nature is inherently good. This basic inspiration may be reaffirmed from three standpoints: metaphysical, biological and social. All social evolution can be seen as an extension of the most basic drive of species preservation inherent in the human being. If one combines metaphysics with biology, again one reaches the conclusion that human nature cannot be designed for social conflict. Under social conditions of scarcity, the social result may but need not necessarily be strife. In bio-evolutionary social theory, however sophisticated mankind becomes, social changes must in turn serve primary biological drives. The lesson of social evolution is that fear, greed and conflict have led humanity to the brink of destruction in a game of species survival brinkmanship.
