{"product_id":"the-correcting-animal-the-case-for-humanity-paperback","title":"The Correcting Animal: The Case for Humanity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChip Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a case against humanity, and most of the educated world has quietly accepted it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are the one creature that has put the whole living world at risk. We built the death camp and the strip mine. Some who follow the thought to its end conclude that the decent thing would be for us to stop. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Correcting Animal\u003c\/i\u003e is the case for the other side, and it does not begin by denying the charges. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe charges are largely true. Its quarrel with the prosecution is stranger and more basic: contempt for humanity is available only at a distance. It requires the population figure, the carbon total, the species-level rap sheet. Almost no one comes to despise humanity while looking at a human being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo the method is to look. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross twenty chapters, Chip Joyce describes the creature entire, beginning with a fact that sounds like an indictment and turns out to be the key to everything: a human infant arrives more helpless than any newborn on Earth, turned out too soon and unfinished, without the fixed answers every other animal is issued at birth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat helplessness looks at first like the deepest of our curses. It is the opening through which everything else came pouring in-the guessing, the correcting, the reaching, and at the far end of it, the love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe argument runs through the crow that bends a wire into a hook, the doctors who would not wash their hands, the two billion sparrows killed on one man's order, the botanist who died in a cell for telling the truth about grain, and the mathematician who waded into the pond at Auschwitz. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt draws one line through all of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGoodness is the willingness to be corrected. Evil is the refusal to look. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat separates them is never intelligence. It is whether the wall around the mistake is allowed to stand. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in the register of Bronowski and Sagan, grounded in Popper, Deutsch, Hayek, and Rand, this is a defense built from evidence rather than sentiment. It ends where it must, on a single human face. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Infinity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEnlightenment Now\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ascent of Man\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe philosophical companion to \u003ci\u003eHow to Think: Conversations from a Father to a Son\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.64 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 18, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56198349783345,"sku":"9798997402013","price":25.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/dWKpjikgtU9798997402013.webp?v=1788992966","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/the-correcting-animal-the-case-for-humanity-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}