The flip side of the mirror

The collection includes two works by Konrad Lorenz - the “flip side of the mirror” and “eight mortal sins of civilized humanity.”
In the first, the famous ethologist considers the nature of knowledge from the point of view of biology, philosophy and psychology and, as a result, offers us a completely unexpected view of The cognitive ability of all living organisms, including the most primitive life forms, is the ability that completely defines the logic of their existence, development and interaction with each other and the outside world.
The second work written on the basis of popular lectures on the Vienna radio, It paints us with a completely different image of the Lorenz - a philosopher, passionate about the pressing social, political and cultural problems of modern society - from overpopulation to “loneliness in the city”, from competition in business to the eternal confrontation of “fathers and children”