Editing On Aggression (section)

{{short description|1963 book by Konrad Lorenz}}
{{Infobox book
| name             = On Aggression
| title_orig       = Das sogenannte Böse
| translator       = Marjorie Latzke
| image            = File:On Aggression, German first edition.jpg
| caption          = Cover of the first edition
| author           = [[Konrad Lorenz]]
| country          = Austria
| language         = German
| subject          = [[Behavioural science]]
| publisher        = [[Methuen Publishing]]
| pub_date         = 1963
| english_pub_date = 1966
| media_type       = Print ([[Hardcover]] and [[Paperback]])
| pages            = 273
| isbn             = 978-0-415-28320-5
| oclc             = 72226348}}
'''''On Aggression''''' ({{langx|de|Das sogenannte Böse. Zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression}}, "So-called Evil: on the natural history of aggression") is a 1963 book by the [[ethology|ethologist]] [[Konrad Lorenz]]; it was translated into English in 1966.<ref>''Das sogenannte Böse zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression'', Original edition : Verlag Dr. G Borotha-Schoeler, 1963 ("So-called [[evil]], Toward a Natural History of Aggression").</ref> As he writes in the prologue, "the subject of this book is ''[[aggression]]'', that is to say the fighting instinct in beast and man which is directed ''against '' members of the same species." (Page 3)

The book was reviewed many times, both positively and negatively, by biologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts and others. Much criticism was directed at Lorenz's extension of his findings on non-human animals to humans.