Bk. l. The Parable of the Tribes -- 2. Understanding Change -- 3. The Common Sense: Selection by Human Choice. -- 4. The Rube Goldberg Problem: A Critique of the Commonsense Theory. -- 5. Toward A Bigger Vision. -- 6. The Way of Life. -- 7. The Emergence of Culture. -- 8. The Breakthrough to Civilization. -- 9. The Struggle for Power. -- 10. The Selection for Power: The Parable of the Tribes. -- 11. The Reign of Power. -- 12. Power versus Choice in Social Evolution. 13. A Tragic View of Human Destiny. -- 14. Hope. -- 2. The Theft of Human Choice. -- 1. Unfree Choices. -- 2. Two Great Waves of Change. -- 3. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: The Non-Alternatives of the Parable of the Tribes. -- 4. Qualifications: Limits on the Transformative Effects of Conquest. -- 5. Choosing the Choosers: The Historymakers. -- 6. The Mother of Invention. -- 3. Shaped by Power. -- 1.
Red Sky at Morning: The Dawn of Civilization and the Rise of Warfare. -- 2. The Evolution Toward Larger Societies. -- 3. The Evolution Toward More Complex Societies. -- 4. The Evolution Toward More Effective Central Control. -- 5. Reflections on the Disadvantages of Centralization. -- 6. The Adrenalin Society. -- 7. The Common Denominator. -- Epilogue to Book I. Power and Choice in Our Times -- Bk. II. The Natural and the Unnatural -- Introduction: The Natural and the Unnatural -- Prologue. A Zoo Story. -- 4. Human Nature and the Evaluation of Civilization. -- 1. Out of the Cold: Beyond Value Neutrality. -- 2. A Theory of Natural Values. -- 3. The Question of Human Nature. -- 4. Eden: The Natural Environment. -- 5.The Fatal Mismatch. -- 6. The Original Sinner: Evaluating Human Nature. -- 5. Power and the Psychological Evolution of Civilized Man. -- 1. The Re-creation of Man. -- 2. Fighting Mad. -- 3. Hierarchy and the Lust for Power. -- 4.
Under the Yoke: Harnessing Human Energies. -- 5. The War Within: Moral Internalization and the Social Order. -- 6. Unreasonable reason. -- 7. Conclusion: Possibilities. -- 6. Systems of Nature and of Civilization.
1. Synergy and Viability: Dimensions of Wholeness. -- 2. Nature and Civilization Contrasted. -- 3. The Turning Point: Biological Evolution versus Social Evolution. -- 4. Artificial Wholeness: Justice as the Antidote for Power. -- 7. The Parable of the Tribes and the Loss of Wholeness. -- 1. Man's Dominion: Power and the Degradation of the Ecosystem. -- 2. The State of Unnature: The Problems of the Intersocietal System. -- 3. Men Are Not Ants: The Problem of Power in the Body Politic. -- 4. The Market as a Power System: A Critique of the Capitalist Economy. -- 5. A House Divided Revisited. -- 6. The Death of the Unnatural. -- 8. Conclusion: Therefore Choose Life.
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