One of my favorite theorists of human nature is Claude Levi-Strauss, the famous French anthropologist whose long life spanned almost the entirety of the 20th century.  In his view, the human mind operates according to a universal law (or structure) that reconciles binary pairs of contradictory elements.  As an ethnographer, Levi-Strauss focused on the roleContinue reading “Being Human, or, the Dialectics of a Polarized Mind”