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The Invention of Good and Evil

A World History of Morality

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The Invention of Good and Evil

By: Hanno Sauer
Narrated by: Callum Coates
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For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving them into our cities, laws and customs.

Morality is often associated with restraint and coercion; restriction and sacrifice; inquisition, confession and a guilty conscience. Joyless and claustrophobic, it is a device used to shames us into compliance. This impression is not entirely incorrect, but it is certainly incomplete.

Using our past as a basis for a new understanding of our future, Hanno Sauer traces humanity's fundamental moral transformations from our earliest ancestors through to the present day, when it seems we have never disagreed more over what it means to be good. Our current political disagreements may feel like the end of the world, but where will the evolution of morality take us next?

©2024 Hanno Sauer (P)2024 Profile Books Ltd Civilization Ethics & Morality
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This is an ambitious and compelling project. Perhaps too ambitious. The foundational material is fascinating and insightful. But the later ‘woke’ section seems to shed the intellectual rigour that makes the early section of the book impressive. To claim, for example, that it’s ‘wrong’ to say a trans woman is not a real woman is both unscientific and illogical.

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