The Lucifer Effect
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Philip Zimbardo
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Chapter 1
- Lucifer’s sin is what thinkers in the Middle Ages called “cupiditas.”* For Dante, the sins that spring from that root are the most extreme “sins of the wolf,” the spiritual condition of having an inner black hole so deep within oneself that no amount of power or money can ever fill it.Dec 28 2022 3:37AM
- One thesis of this book is that most of us know ourselves only from our limited experiences in familiar situations that involve rules, laws, policies, and pressures that constrain us.Dec 16 2022 6:18AM