As far back as the Socratic dialogues in Plato, and even before that, man has been baffled about himself. He knows he is capable of great and noble deeds, but then he is also oppressed by the evidence of great wrongdoing. And so far as free will and determinism are concerned, something I heard in India on a long ago visit, might be worth passing along. We know, for example, that the existence of fear and man’s inability to cope with fear bring about the worst in him. We know that what is true of man on a small scale can be true of society on a large scale.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 20, 2020 10:08 UTC