I'm giving Rutger bregman book humankind a fairly low mark because in my estimation he tackles some big, solid giants and comes up leaving my worldview largely untouched but slightly depressed. ![]() TL:DR don't buy this book if you got a low score on the Gapminder test (Google it). It is time for a new view of human nature. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram’s Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think – and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. In this major book, internationally best-selling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world’s most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. Human beings, we’re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. It’s a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It is time for a new view of human nature.Bloomsbury presents Humankind by Rutger Bregman, read by Rutger Bregman and Thomas Judd.Ī Guardian, Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times summer listen. From the real-life Lord of the Flies to the Blitz, a Siberian fox farm to an infamous New York murder, Stanley Milgram's Yale shock machine to the Stanford prison experiment, Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think - and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society. In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history. ![]() Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good.īy thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives.įrom Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. Humankind: A Hopeful History (De meeste mensen deugen) Rutger Bregman € 14.99 This item arrived at our Amsterdam and The Hague stores within the past 8 weeks If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 2-3 working days.
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